Hi Richard and Erez, On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 16:02, Richard Cochran <richardcoch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:36:07AM +0100, Erez wrote: > > May break when using non Linuxptp, as far as I understand, linuxptp only > > sets the field, but never checks the value. > > The risk is that some hardware implementations may check those fields > and then fail to generate time stamps. > > In the case of the PTP minor version field, there are already two > known bad HW devices that fail when the field is non-zero. Of course, > this violates 1588-2008, but it proves the point that vendors don't > follow the standard.
Ok, that was a concern but I didn't know how likely it would be. Given this would you agree to zeroing those values based on a setting? If so would it need to default to preserve the 1588-2008 values or do you expect those customers are ok changing their configs? Best regards _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
