On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 01:46:26PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 02:34:14PM +0200, Heikkinen, Ville (Nokia - FI/Espoo) > wrote: > > (https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/reports/kern/kernb.pdf). In > > there, it's specified that "STA_UNSYNC set/cleared by the caller to indicate > > clock unsynchronized (e.g., when no peers are reachable)". So, this is the > > reasoning why the flag could be used like this. > > Good find. > > FWIW, I'm not aware of any software that would unset the flag when the
you meant, "set", right? > clock stops being updated. That includes software that was maintained > by Dr. Mills. > > It seems wrong to me to do that, but I'm not strongly opposed. I think we can go ahead and give a flag a meaning. If the kernel meant to enforce some other kind of meaning, then it would have had to check the value that user space provides. Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
