On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 01:59:33PM +0000, Geva, Erez wrote: > As I add the PORT_STATS_NP message, > I notice that the statistics is stored in unsigned integer 64 bits values, > but using host order instead of network order.
Oops, that was an oversight. > As I know you follow the IEEE standard, > It would be nice if you could elaborate on this message. This message is a custom message, and it is not covered by IEEE 1588 or any other standard. > Can we fix it and rebase it to network order? Unfortunately, simply "fixing" it unconditionally will break existing deployments. > May be add a flag for backward compatible. If we go with that, then the default value of "compatible" will have to be "true". > What do you think? Maybe it is better to simply leave it as is. I myself don't use this TLV. Since the pmc tool prints the correct values, probably nobody would insist on having big endian in the on-the-wire format. Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
