PTP process won't start on 4.14 with OC/BC config

4.14

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1. Deploy 4.14 OCP and ptp
2. Configure BC or OC
3. Check ptp daemon log

PTP process won't start with following log repeated in ptp daemon pod.

I0627 17:44:41.656822 2187546 utils.go:65] grabbing NIC timestamp capability for ens7f2
I0627 17:44:41.657984 2187546 utils.go:31] cmd output for Time stamping parameters for ens7f2:
Capabilities:
	hardware-transmit
	software-transmit
	hardware-receive
	software-receive
	software-system-clock
	hardware-raw-clock
PTP Hardware Clock: 6
Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes:
	off
	on
Hardware Receive Filter Modes:
	none
	all
I0627 17:44:41.658046 2187546 utils.go:65] grabbing NIC timestamp capability for ens7f3
I0627 17:44:41.659566 2187546 utils.go:31] cmd output for Time stamping parameters for ens7f3:
Capabilities:
	hardware-transmit
	software-transmit
	hardware-receive
	software-receive
	software-system-clock
	hardware-raw-clock
PTP Hardware Clock: 6
Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes:
	off
	on
Hardware Receive Filter Modes:
	none
	all
I0627 17:44:41.659708 2187546 utils.go:65] grabbing NIC timestamp capability for f06c59b5f2f25b0
I0627 17:44:41.660840 2187546 utils.go:31] cmd output for Time stamping parameters for f06c59b5f2f25b0:
Capabilities:
	software-transmit
	software-receive
	software-system-clock
PTP Hardware Clock: none
Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes: none
Hardware Receive Filter Modes: none
I0627 17:44:41.660873 2187546 utils.go:65] grabbing NIC timestamp capability for f624125b11581d0
I0627 17:44:41.661796 2187546 utils.go:31] cmd output for Time stamping parameters for f624125b11581d0:
Capabilities:
	software-transmit
	software-receive
	software-system-clock
PTP Hardware Clock: none
Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes: none
Hardware Receive Filter Modes: none
I0627 17:44:41.661854 2187546 utils.go:65] grabbing NIC timestamp capability for f63a745fb3f8f58
I0627 17:44:41.662742 2187546 utils.go:31] cmd output for Time stamping parameters for f63a745fb3f8f58:
Capabilities:
	software-transmit
	software-receive
	software-system-clock
PTP Hardware Clock: none
Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes: none
Hardware Receive Filter Modes: none
I0627 17:44:41.662794 2187546 utils.go:65] grabbing NIC timestamp capability for f9bc2341f57b6e4
I0627 17:44:41.664161 2187546 utils.go:31] cmd output for Time stamping parameters for f9bc2341f57b6e4:
Capabilities:
	software-transmit
	software-receive
	software-system-clock
PTP Hardware Clock: none
Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes: none
Hardware Receive Filter Modes: none
I0627 17:44:41.664181 2187546 utils.go:65] grabbing NIC timestamp capability for ovn-k8s-mp0
I0627 17:44:41.665371 2187546 utils.go:31] cmd output for Time stamping parameters for ovn-k8s-mp0:
Capabilities:
	software-receive
	software-system-clock
PTP Hardware Clock: none
Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes: none
Hardware Receive Filter Modes: none
I0627 17:44:41.665437 2187546 utils.go:65] grabbing NIC timestamp capability for ovs-system
I0627 17:44:41.666442 2187546 utils.go:31] cmd output for Time stamping parameters for ovs-system:
Capabilities:
	software-receive
	software-system-clock
PTP Hardware Clock: none
Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes: none
Hardware Receive Filter Modes: none
I0627 17:44:41.666461 2187546 ptpdev.go:28] PTP capable NICs: [eno12399 eno12409 eno12419 eno12429 eno8303 eno8403 ens4f0np0 ens4f1np1 ens5f0np0 ens5f1np1 ens7f0 ens7f1 ens7f2 ens7f3]

ptp process started and clocks synced

Joseph has taken a look and thinks this is introduced by change merged recently: 

 https://github.com/openshift/linuxptp-daemon/blob/master/pkg/daemon/daemon.go#L467