linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 0/3] broadcom: report the supported flags for ancillary features

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Message-ID: <20250919103928.3ab57aa2@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:39:28 +0200
From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>, Broadcom internal
 kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Russell King
 <linux@...linux.org.uk>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@...ux.dev>,
 Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>, Yaroslav Kolomiiets
 <yrk@...a.com>, James Clark <jjc@...ark.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] broadcom: report the supported flags for
 ancillary features

On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:33:15 -0700
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com> wrote:

> James Clark reported off list that the broadcom PHY PTP driver was
> incorrectly handling PTP_EXTTS_REQUEST and PTP_PEROUT_REQUEST ioctls since
> the conversion to the .supported_*_flags fields. This series fixes the
> driver to correctly report its flags through the .supported_perout_flags
> and .supported_extts_flags fields. It also contains an update to comment
> the behavior of the PTP_STRICT_FLAGS being always enabled for
> PTP_EXTTS_REQUEST2.
> 
> I plan to follow up this series with some improvements to the PTP
> documentation better explaining each flag and the expectation of the driver
> APIs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>

Thank you!
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com