netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] ixgbe: add support for extended PHC gettime

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Message-ID: <20181031211632.f7imvzvrsn6pbwgb@localhost>
Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:16:32 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] ixgbe: add support for extended PHC gettime

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 03:49:35PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> 
> How about separating the PHC timestamp from the ptp_system_timestamp
> structure and use NULL to indicate we don't want to read the system
> clock? A gettimex64(ptp, ts, NULL) call would be equal to
> gettime64(ptp, ts).

Doesn't sound too bad to me.

Thanks,
Richard