linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 0/3] ptp: Provide support for auxiliary clocks for PTP_SYS_OFFSET

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Message-ID: <faca1b8e-bd39-4501-a380-24246a8234d6@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 12:27:54 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
 Christopher Hall <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>,
 John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
 Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@...hat.com>,
 Werner Abt <werner.abt@...nberg-usa.com>,
 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>,
 Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>, Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>,
 Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 0/3] ptp: Provide support for auxiliary clocks for
 PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED

On 7/1/25 3:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This is a follow up to the V1 series, which can be found here:
> 
>      https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250626124327.667087805@linutronix.de
> 
> to address the merge logistics problem, which I created myself.
> 
> Changes vs. V1:
> 
>     - Make patch 1, which provides the timestamping function temporarily
>       define CLOCK_AUX* if undefined so that it can be merged independently,
> 
>     - Add a missing check for CONFIG_POSIX_AUX_CLOCK in the PTP IOCTL
> 
>     - Picked up tags
> 
> Merge logistics if agreed on:
> 
>     1) Patch #1 is applied to the tip tree on top of plain v6.16-rc1 and
>        tagged
> 
>     2) That tag is merged into tip:timers/ptp and the temporary CLOCK_AUX
>        define is removed in a subsequent commit
> 
>     3) Network folks merge the tag and apply patches #2 + #3
> 
> So the only fallout from this are the extra merges in both trees and the
> cleanup commit in the tip tree. But that way there are no dependencies and
> no duplicate commits with different SHAs.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm sorry for the latency here; the plan works for me! I'll wait for the
tag reference.

Could you please drop a notice here when such tag will be available?

Thanks,

Paolo