Re: [Linuxptp-devel] phc2sys freezes the system if started before PHY

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 02:22:10AM +0100, Petr Kulhavy wrote:
> On this condition the system freezes as soon as the phc2sys starts.
> I'm wondering why this happens. Phc2sys uses /dev/ptp0 which is created by
> the kernel very early. Why does it need the PHY to initialize? And why does
> the lack of initialization kills the system?
> Not even sure whether this is a problem of phc2sys or of the kernel.

This must be a bug in the FEC driver.  (User space programs like
phc2sys cannot freeze the system.)

Thanks,
Richard