Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH 3/3] port: Signal sync/follow-up mismatch events loudly

[Keller, J. E <jac...@in...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Oltean <ol...@gm...>
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 3:11 PM
> To: ric...@gm...
> Cc: lin...@li...
> Subject: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH 3/3] port: Signal sync/follow-up mismatch
> events loudly
> 
> Ptp4l is too silent when receiving, for whatever reason, out of order
> messages. If the reordering is persistent (which is either a broken
> network, or a broken kernel), the behavior looks like a complete
> synchronization stall, since the application is designed to never
> attempt to recover from such a condition.
> 
> At least save some people some debugging hours and be loud when the
> application reaches this code path.
> 

Excellent! This one makes sense to me.

Thanks,
Jake