Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 2020 04:04:44 -0700 | From | Richard Cochran <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] net: fec: initialize clock with 0 rather than current kernel time |
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 06:27:21PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > There's no correct answer, I'm afraid. Whatever the default value of the > clock may be, it's bound to be confusing for some reason, _if_ the > reason why you're investigating it in the first place is a driver bug. > Also, I don't really see how your change to use Jan 1st 1970 makes it > any less confusing.
+1
For a PHC, the user of the clock must check the PTP stack's synchronization flags via the management interface to know the status of the time signal.
Thanks, Richard
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