netdev - Re: [PATCH v7] posix-timers: add clock

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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:04:20 +0100
From: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Sagi Maimon <maimon.sagi@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] posix-timers: add clock_compare system call

On Sat Mar 23 2024, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23 2024 at 01:38, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED moves the outer sample points as close as
>> possible to the actual PCH read and provides both outer samples to user
>> space for analysis. It was introduced for a reason, no?
>
> That said, it's a sad state of affairs that 16 drivers which did exist
> before the introduction of the gettimex64() callback have not been
> converted over to it within 4.5 years.
>
> What's even worse is that 14 drivers have been merged _after_ the
> gettimex64() callback got introduced without implementing it:
>

[...]

> 2020-11-05   drivers/net/dsa/hirschmann/hellcreek_ptp.c

Oh, my bad. Let me switch this one to gettimex64() then.

Thanks,
Kurt

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