Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] port: print sync/follow-up mismatch events

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

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 06:23:21PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> 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 print when the
> application reaches this code path. Since it's a debugging tool, we
> don't want to create false alarms when the occasional packet gets
> reordered in a production system, but have this information readily
> available when the program's log level is set to debug, instead of
> having users fish for it with code instrumentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <ol...@gm...>

Applied.

Thanks,
Richard