linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] ptp: Remove 'default y' for VMCLOCK PTP device

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Message-ID: <20241104181927.05a9485a@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 18:19:27 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ptp: Remove 'default y' for VMCLOCK PTP device

On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 16:52:17 -0500 David Woodhouse wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
> 
> The VMCLOCK device gives support for accurate timekeeping even across 
> live migration, unlike the KVM PTP clock. To help ensure that users can
> always use ptp_vmclock where it's available in preference to ptp_kvm,
> set it to 'default PTP_1588_CLOCK_VMCLOCK' instead of 'default y'.

Good enough for me, let's see if it's good enough for the main guy :)
Thanks!