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phc2sys: Update man page to reflect the new restriction on the PPS mode.
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Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>
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richardcochran committed Jan 3, 2021
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.TH PHC2SYS 8 "April 2018" "linuxptp"
.TH PHC2SYS 8 "January 2021" "linuxptp"
.SH NAME
phc2sys \- synchronize two or more clocks

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.TP
.BI \-d " pps-device"
Specify the PPS device of the master clock (e.g. /dev/pps0). With this option
the PPS synchronization mode is used instead of the direct mode. As the PPS
signal does not specify time and only marks start of a second, the slave clock
should be already close to the correct time before
.B phc2sys
is started or the
.B \-s
option should be used too. With the
the PPS synchronization mode is used instead of the direct mode. The
matching PHC must be specified using the
.B \-s
option the PPS signal of the master clock is enabled automatically, otherwise
it has to be enabled before
.B phc2sys
is started (e.g. by running \f(CWecho 1 > /sys/class/ptp/ptp0/pps_enable\fP).
command line option.
This option can be used only with the system clock as the slave clock. Not
compatible with the
.B \-a
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