[chrony-dev] Runtime refclock management

[Will Miles <wmiles@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've recently adapted my company's data acquisition platform to use 
chrony to manage the local clock.   However, one of the platform 
features was the ability to add, remove, or reconfigure time sources 
such as GPS receivers or PPS hookups at any time -- so rather than set 
up some predefined refclock inputs (SOC0, SOC1, SHM0, etc.) and come up 
with some external mechanism to track which ones were in use and by 
whom, it seemed more straightforward to extend chrony to allow for "add 
refclock" and "delete refclock" operations via chronyc.   I don't know 
if this will be generally useful - I've only really tested it with the 
SOCK refclock - but I thought I'd post it up in case anyone else was 
interested.

What is the best way to submit a patch sequence?   Currently I've got it 
up on github at 
https://github.com/willmmiles/chrony/commits/client-refclock-add , but I 
can do something like git format-patch/git send-email if that's more 
practical.

Comments are very welcome - if this is a feature you'd be interested in 
adopting upstream, but there's further work to do or a different 
approach you'd prefer to see, please let me know and I'd be happy to 
improve it in whatever way I can.

Thanks,

-Will


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