Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 7/9] net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: add hardware time stamping support

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Mon Nov 09 2020 - 20:42:40 EST


Sorry for getting back late to you. It did not compute when I read your
email the first time around, then I let it sit for a while.

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 09:18:04PM +0100, Christian Eggers wrote:
> unfortunately I made a mistake when testing. Actually the timestamp *must* be
> moved from the correction field (negative) to the egress tail tag.

That doesn't sound very good at all.

I have a simple question. Can your driver, when operating as a PTP
master clock, distribute a time in 2020 into your network? (you can
check with "phc_ctl /dev/ptp0 get")