On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 02:20:28PM +0000, Chang, Benjamin via Linuxptp-users wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get an understanding of ptp (and maybe track why I can't get > ptp to work) and I did notice that my "PTP Hardware Clock:" value from the > ethtools -T call differs from all the examples I've seen. I am curious what > the PTP Hardware clock value means? Every example seems to have it as 0. > Looking at the ethtools page doesn't give much inside. -T just says it > displays ptp capabilities. Does it mean that maybe my device can act as a PTP > clock? Or that maybe its receiving a hardware clock?
That field is an index or "none". If it's 1, it means you have multiple PTP clocks and this is the second one. The first one has 0. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-users mailing list Linuxptp-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-users
