netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] PTP support for the SJA1105 DSA driver

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Message-ID: <20190601050311.3dkzbsm3kiccyd35@localhost>
Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 22:03:11 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] PTP support for the SJA1105 DSA driver

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 07:16:17PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> But now comes the question on what to do on error cases - the meta
> frame didn't arrive. Should I just drop the skb waiting for it?

Yes, that is what other drivers do.

> Right now I "goto rcv_anyway" - which linuxptp doesn't like btw.

The application sees the missing time stamp and prints a warning
message.  This is IHMO the right thing to do, so that the user is made
aware of the degradation of the synchronization.

Thanks,
Richard