netdev - Re: [net-next v3 7/7] renesas: reject unsupported external timestamp flags

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Message-ID: <a08e6e28-bc98-a103-0577-a0bb45f950d5@cogentembedded.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:22:52 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Intel Wired LAN <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        Jeffrey Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next v3 7/7] renesas: reject unsupported external timestamp
 flags

On 09/26/2019 09:11 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:

> Fix the renesas PTP support to explicitly reject any future flags that
> get added to the external timestamp request ioctl.
> 
> In order to maintain currently functioning code, this patch accepts all
> three current flags. This is because the PTP_RISING_EDGE and
> PTP_FALLING_EDGE flags have unclear semantics and each driver seems to
> have interpreted them slightly differently.
> 
> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>

[...]

MBR, Sergei