From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] package: linuxptp: workaround for system crash if PHY is not initialized
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:01:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180130230147.46cc03ec@windsurf.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1517155221-19399-3-git-send-email-brain@jikos.cz>
Hello,
On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:00:21 +0100, Petr Kulhavy wrote:
> On some systems (tested on i.MX6 with Freescale kernel 4.1) the system freezes
> if phc2sys starts before the PHY is initialized (phc2sys opens /dev/ptp0).
>
> Unfortunately systemd network.target does not guarantee the PHY to be initialized.
> This workaround pulls in the network-online.target dependency, which postpones
> the phc2sys start after the link is up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Kulhavy <brain@jikos.cz>
Do we really want to workaround this, which appears to be a kernel
problem?
> +# workaround for crashing Freescale PHY if initialized after /dev/ptp0 is open
> +After=network-online.target
> +Wants=network-online.target
Does it make sense to have After and Wants set to the same value ? Are
both really needed ?
(Again: I don't know much about systemd, so don't hesitate to teach me
even the basics!)
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-30 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-28 16:00 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] package: linuxptp: bump to the latest GIT version Petr Kulhavy
2018-01-28 16:00 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] package: linuxptp: enhance systemd service Petr Kulhavy
2018-01-30 22:00 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-01-30 22:19 ` Petr Kulhavy
2018-10-21 23:19 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-01-28 16:00 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] package: linuxptp: workaround for system crash if PHY is not initialized Petr Kulhavy
2018-01-30 22:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-01-30 22:14 ` Petr Kulhavy
2018-10-21 22:12 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-01-30 22:00 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] package: linuxptp: bump to the latest GIT version Thomas Petazzoni
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