Re: [PATCH 3/5] net: fec: initialize clock with 0 rather than current kernel time

[Richard Cochran]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 06:27:21PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> There's no correct answer, I'm afraid. Whatever the default value of the
> clock may be, it's bound to be confusing for some reason, _if_ the
> reason why you're investigating it in the first place is a driver bug.
> Also, I don't really see how your change to use Jan 1st 1970 makes it
> any less confusing.

+1

For a PHC, the user of the clock must check the PTP stack's
synchronization flags via the management interface to know the status
of the time signal.

Thanks,
Richard