Re: [PATCH v8 net-next 00/12] Introduce ndo_hwtstamp_get() and ndo_hwtstamp_set()

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Tue Jul 18 2023 - 04:39:45 EST


On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 06:26:57PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Based on previous RFCs from Maxim Georgiev:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230502043150.17097-1-glipus@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> this series attempts to introduce new API for the hardware timestamping
> control path (SIOCGHWTSTAMP and SIOCSHWTSTAMP handling).
>
> I don't have any board with phylib hardware timestamping, so I would
> appreciate testing (especially on lan966x, the most intricate
> conversion). I was, however, able to test netdev level timestamping,
> because I also have some more unsubmitted conversions in progress:
>
> https://github.com/vladimiroltean/linux/commits/ndo-hwtstamp-v7
>
> I hope that the concerns expressed in the comments of previous series
> were addressed, and that Köry Maincent's series:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230406173308.401924-1-kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> can make progress in parallel with the conversion of the rest of drivers.

I'll be waiting until the end of today for more feedback, then I'll
resend this with all the pieces actually added to the commit (and with
include/linux/phylib_stubs.h part of the ETHERNET PHY LIBRARY entry in
MAINTAINERS).

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