netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] timecounter: Add helper for reconstructing partial timestamps

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Date:   Tue, 28 May 2019 21:40:59 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] timecounter: Add helper for reconstructing
 partial timestamps

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 07:14:22PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> Hrm. Is this actually generic? Would it make more sense to have the
> specific implementations with this quirk implement this in their
> read() handler? If not, why?

Strongly agree that this workaround should stay in the driver.  After
all, we do not want to encourage HW designers to continue in this way.

Thanks,
Richard