On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 06:27:21PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > There's no correct answer, I'm afraid. Whatever the default value of the > clock may be, it's bound to be confusing for some reason, _if_ the > reason why you're investigating it in the first place is a driver bug. > Also, I don't really see how your change to use Jan 1st 1970 makes it > any less confusing.
+1 For a PHC, the user of the clock must check the PTP stack's synchronization flags via the management interface to know the status of the time signal. Thanks, Richard