linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 net] net: fec: fix hardware time stamping by external devices

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Date:   Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:24:32 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Sergey Organov <sorganov@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net] net: fec: fix hardware time stamping by external
 devices

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 19:28:02 +0300 Sergey Organov wrote:
> Fix support for external PTP-aware devices such as DSA or PTP PHY:
> 
> Make sure we never time stamp tx packets when hardware time stamping
> is disabled.
> 
> Check for PTP PHY being in use and then pass ioctls related to time
> stamping of Ethernet packets to the PTP PHY rather than handle them
> ourselves. In addition, disable our own hardware time stamping in this
> case.
> 
> Fixes: 6605b730c061 ("FEC: Add time stamping code and a PTP hardware clock")
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> v3:
>   - Fixed SHA1 length of Fixes: tag
>   - Added Acked-by: tags
> 
> v2:
>   - Extracted from larger patch series
>   - Description/comments updated according to discussions
>   - Added Fixes: tag

FWIW in the networking subsystem we like the changelog to be part of the
commit.

Applied, and added to the stable queue, thanks!