netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: phy: add Marvell PHY PTP support

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Date:   Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:53:49 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: phy: add Marvell PHY PTP support

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:33:54PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> 
> PTP_1588_CLOCK could then be used as a global enable for PTP support
> where appropriate.  We can also avoid all the Kconfig complexity
> introduced by having two independent subsystems either of which could
> be modular.

I'm sorry about the Kconfig confusion.  I think it all started with
the tiny-fication work and the new "select" Kconfig keyword.  The
purpose of all this was, IIRC, to allow leaving dynamic posix clocks
out of the kernel, but it still makes my head spin.

Thanks,
Richard