netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] ptp: Add generic ptp v2 header parsing function

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Message-ID: <20200802151321.GA14759@hoboy>
Date:   Sun, 2 Aug 2020 08:13:21 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        Samuel Zou <zou_wei@...wei.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] ptp: Add generic ptp v2 header parsing function

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:00:40AM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
> Reason: A lot of the ptp drivers - which implement hardware time stamping - need
> specific fields such as the sequence id from the ptp v2 header. Currently all
> drivers implement that themselves.
> 
> Introduce a generic function to retrieve a pointer to the start of the ptp v2
> header.
> 
> Suggested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>