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Message-ID: <20231017102920.584d759f@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:29:20 +0200
From:   Köry Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>,
        Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        Broadcom internal kernel review list 
        <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Radu Pirea <radu-nicolae.pirea@....nxp.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>,
        Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 08/16] net: ethtool: Add a command to expose
 current time stamping layer

On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:50:01 -0700
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:41:34PM +0200, Köry Maincent wrote:
> 
> > Still I am wondering why hardware timestamping capabilities can be enabled
> > without phc.  
> 
> There is hardware that simply provides time values on frames from a
> free running clock, and that clock cannot be read, set, or adjusted.
> 
> So the time stamps only relate to other time stamps from the same
> device.  That might be used for performance analysis.

Ok, thanks you for the information.

Köry

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