Hello Richard,

Thanks o lot for your insight. Since you are overloaded with ptp4l patches, we
will try to find another place for our synce4l application.

All the best,
MichaƂ Michalik

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Cochran <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2022 5:15 AM
> To: Michalik, Michal <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Armstrong <[email protected]>; 
> [email protected]; Kubalewski, Arkadiusz 
> <[email protected]>; Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]>; 
> Erez <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH 00/11] synce4l: add software for 
> Synchronous Ethernet
> 
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:24:47PM +0000, Michalik, Michal wrote:
> 
> > Richard - since you obviously have the last word, would you mind to state 
> > your
> > final decision clearly to avoid any further interpretations of your answer?
> 
> As it is, I am really not even keeping up with the PTP patches, and so
> I really cannot look after either of these SyncE programs.
> 
> > Btw. We also considering contributing your project, if that gets more 
> > traction
> > and would at some time look more promising. What I am concerned about right 
> > now
> > looking at it, it seems really hardware specific. We aimed to avoid that at 
> > all
> > cost - our application is not connected to Intel HW at all - it can be used 
> > with NIC of
> > any vendor.
> 
> I think the ideal solution would be a new project that combines the
> best aspects of both efforts.
> 
> If that can't happen, then I would suggest adopting two distinct names
> for the binaries, like:
> 
> - synce4l
> - synced
> 
> The second one has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
>


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