netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: mscc: PTP offloading support

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Message-ID: <20190118090945.GI25424@kwain>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:09:45 +0100
From:   Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
To:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        ralf@...ux-mips.org, paul.burton@...s.com, jhogan@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, quentin.schulz@...tlin.com,
        allan.nielsen@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: mscc: PTP offloading support

Hi Richard,

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 06:13:42PM -0800, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:02:04AM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > This series adds support for the PTP offloading support in the Mscc
> > Ocelot Ethernet switch driver. Both PTP 1-step and 2-step modes are
> > supported.
> > 
> > In order to make use of the PTP offloading support, two new register
> > banks were described in the Ocelot device tree. The use of those
> > registers by the Mscc Ocelot Ethernet switch driver is made optional for
> > dt compatibility reasons. For the same reason a new interrupt is
> > described, and its use is also made optinal for compatibility reasons.
> > All of this is done ine patches 1-5.
> > 
> > The PTP offloading support itself is added in patch 8.
> 
> The subject lines and this description are misleading.  You are not
> offloading the Precision Time Protocol.  Instead, this series
> implements a normal PHC driver.
> 
> Please change the text to avoid the phrase, "PTP offloading".

Will do.

Thanks!
Antoine

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Antoine Ténart, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com