Re: [Linuxptp-users] system1: ptp4l master offset continues to climb: step_threshold 1

[Dale S. <dal...@gm...>]

Yes indeed!  I *was* going to mention that it was changing in the wrong
direction, but somehow I sent the mail before I added that.

Yep  Looks like broken HW or driver.

-Dale

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Richard Cochran <ric...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 01:34:53PM -0400, Dale Smith wrote:
> > I could be wrong, but isn't the step_threshold in seconds?  And -106627
> is
> > about  106 microseconds.  So won't it take quite a while yet before the
> > threshold is reached?
>
> Yes, you are right.  The value is in seconds.  However, I assumed that
> Harold knew this, because I quoted the man page to him and setting the
> threshold to 1 nanosecond makes no sense at all.
>
> The real problem is the drifting away.  It is a sign of broken HW (or
> driver), and we don't have any configuration parameter to cure that!
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>