Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 6/9] Add plumbing for interacting with the CMLDS

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

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 06:26:09PM -0400, Kishen Maloor wrote:
> This change furnishes the plumbing for interacting with CMLDS
> Link Ports (i.e. ports with "run_cmlds=1").
> 
> It adds internal functions for PTP Ports which employ the
> COMMON_P2P delay mechanism to issue requests to a CMLDS Link Port at
> MID_CMLDS_INFO_NP and handle the response.

This is too complicated.

Let's keep it simple.

I'd like to have this:

1. provide the new TLV via the PUSH mechanism.

2. let clients using DM_COMMON_P2P subscribe to the new TLV.

3. let the client update their peer delay values based on an incoming TLV.

Thanks,
Richard