netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] sfc: add support for PTP over IPv6 and 802.3

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:58:31 +0200
From:   Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     ecree.xilinx@...il.com, habetsm.xilinx@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] sfc: add support for PTP over IPv6 and 802.3

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:17 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:02:39AM +0200, Íñigo Huguet wrote:
> > Most recent cards (8000 series and newer) had enough hardware support
> > for this, but it was not enabled in the driver. The transmission of PTP
> > packets over these protocols was already added in commit bd4a2697e5e2
> > ("sfc: use hardware tx timestamps for more than PTP"), but receiving
> > them was already unsupported so synchronization didn't happen.
>
> You don't appear to Cc: the PTP maintainer.
>
>     Andrew
>

I didn't think about that, but looking at MAINTAINERS, there doesn't
seem to be any. There are 2 maintainers for the drivers of the clock
devices, but none for anything related to the network protocol...

-- 
Íñigo Huguet