On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 05:11:36PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 09:44:21AM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > I think it would be great if all PTP clocks had this status and > > esterror/maxerror fields. For example, with the ptp_kvm driver guests > > have access to the system clock of the host as a PHC, but there is no > > way to check if/how well the clock is actually synchronized. > > > > I had this on my todo list for a long time, but wasn't able to look > > into it yet. > > There are clearly some merits to this idea, but I don't know if it would > cater to the use case where you want to send some traffic on a port that > is a PTP master, and you want to know whether the slaves attached to you > are synchronized?
No, this is meant only for distributing the information locally within a system or possibly between a VM host and guest. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
