netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/6] ptp: Request cycles for TX timestamp

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Date:   Thu, 5 May 2022 06:54:04 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Gerhard Engleder <gerhard@...leder-embedded.com>
Cc:     vinicius.gomes@...el.com, yangbo.lu@....com, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, mlichvar@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/6] ptp: Request cycles for TX timestamp

On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 01:18:32PM +0200, Gerhard Engleder wrote:
> The free running cycle counter of physical clocks called cycles shall be
> used for hardware timestamps to enable synchronisation.
> 
> Introduce new flag SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP_USE_CYCLES, which signals driver to
> provide a TX timestamp based on cycles if cycles are supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerhard Engleder <gerhard@...leder-embedded.com>

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