netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/5] net: Introduce a new MII time stamping interface.

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Message-ID: <20181007210728.nimnrijadb2skedg@localhost>
Date:   Sun, 7 Oct 2018 14:07:28 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@...hat.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/5] net: Introduce a new MII time stamping
 interface.

On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 01:59:06PM -0700, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 09:54:00PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > 1) phylink, not phdev. We have been pushing some MAC drivers towards
> > phylink, especially those which support >1Gbp.
> 
> If a phylink device appears that wants time stamping, can't we add the
> call to register_mii_timestamper()?

Actually, I see that 'struct phylink' has a 'struct phy_device *phydev',
and so it can implement the 'struct mii_timestamper' interface directly.

Thanks,
Richard