On Mon, 2018-10-01 at 21:32 +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vedang Patel [mailto:vedang.pa...@intel.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 2:58 PM > > To: linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > Cc: Gomes, Vinicius <vinicius.go...@intel.com>; Sanchez-Palencia, > > Jesus > > <jesus.sanchez-palen...@intel.com> > > Subject: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH v2 6/7] Add ignore_source_id > > config option. > > > > This config option will skip the source port identity verification > > in > > the Sync and Follow_up messages. This option is needed when the > > announce > > messages are disabled because the slave cannot know the identity of > > master without announce messages. > > > > This is required by Automotive Profile as part of skipping the Best > > Master Clock Algorithm (BMCA). > > > Would it be better to allow configuring the expected source id > instead? > Manually configuring source ids for all slave devices is not going to be ideal in mass production.
Also, the spec[1] (look at Section 6.3, point #2) specifically asks for the source id to be ignored. Thanks, Vedang [1] - https://avnu.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Automotive-Ethernet-A VB-Func-Interop-Spec-v1.5-Public.pdf > Thanks, > Jake > _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
