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

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Date:   Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:13:42 -0800
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
Cc:     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

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".

Thanks,
Richard