Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net>:
>
> Eric said:
> > Possible work item (me): Change Mode 6 so it no longer ships system status
> > bits in hex, decoding them into a string token list instead, old behavior
> > preserved under ENABLE_CLASSIC_MODE. This is because the PLL* definitions
> > aren't guaranteed to be consistent across different system versions.
>
> > Work item: New Mode 6 responses that unpack status bits into list of string
> > tags for the status bits. Avoids potential problem with PLL bits (outside
> > our control) changing due to kernel mods.
>
> I think the first should be dropped in favor of the second.
>
> I don't see how to make ENABLE_CLASSIC_MODE help with this problem. There
> are 4 possible combinations of server and ntpq with and without
> ENABLE_CLASSIC_MODE. We want all of them to work.
>
> I think the new send-string case works if it is sent with a different tag in
> addition to the old hex mode.
>
> I agree that it is possible for different PLL implementations to assign
> different bit values to flags, but none of them have done it yet and it would
> cause all sorts of confusion. I'd be happy to add a warning at build time.
> (or require a configuration option to get past a fatal error)
Your amendments seem completely reasonable, OK.
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