Re: [RFC net-next 1/7] ptp: Add interface for acquiring DPLL state

[Richard Cochran]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 06:07:11PM +0200, Arkadiusz Kubalewski wrote:
> Previously there was no common interface for monitoring
> synchronization state of Digital Phase Locked Loop.
> 
> Add interface through PTP ioctl subsystem for tools,
> as well as sysfs human-friendly part of the interface.
> 
> enum dpll_state moved to uapi definition, it is required to
> have common definition of DPLL states in uapi.

This has nothing to do with PTP, right?

So why isn't it a RTNL feature instead?

Thanks,
Richard