Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [RFC 1/1] Add avnu_ap to enable AVnu Automotive Profile

[Patel, V. <ved...@in...>]

On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 17:37 -0700, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 05:13:03PM +0000, Patel, Vedang wrote:
> > 
> > In the description above, you mentioned that we should use
> > masterOnly
> > and slaveOnly. But, from the pseudo code, it seems like you just
> > want
> > to make decision based only on slaveOnly option. Which one do you
> > prefer?
> The code should require that one of these is set when BMCA == noop.
> 
> > 
> > If we are just using a single option, I would prefer masterOnly
> > since
> > it is a per-port variable and extending support to bridges will be
> > easy.
> How about this?  Leave slaveOnly global.  When BMCA == noop then
> check
> port option masterOnly, then global slaveOnly, else fail.
> 
> Later on, a bridge that has both port types can set slaveOnly as the
> global default and configure masterOnly per port as needed.
> 
Thanks for the inputs. I will send out the updated patches soon.

-Vedang
> Thanks,
> Richard