On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 02:26:44PM +0800, Yangbo Lu wrote:
> IEEE 1588-2019 specified new UInteger4 type minorVersionPTP field in header,
> and minorVersionNumber data in portDS. It has the value 1 for IEEE 1588-2019,
> and has the value 0 for IEEE 1588-2008.

I'd like to let the stack advertise the verion upgrade, since it does,
in fact, comply.
 
> This patch is to make versionNumber and minorVersionNumber configurable, 
> rather
> than using hard-coded IEEE 1588-2008 version, for PTP packets.

However I don't understand why this must be configurable.  The user
should not be free to claim, for example, version 2.5 compliance.

What is the use case for making the version configurable?

Thanks,
Richard


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