netdev - Re: [net-next v2 0/9] ptp: convert drivers to .adjfine

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Date:   Mon, 3 Oct 2022 10:37:06 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [net-next v2 0/9] ptp: convert drivers to .adjfine

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 01:48:42PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> Many drivers implementing PTP have not yet migrated to the new .adjfine
> frequency adjustment implementation.
> 
> A handful of these drivers use hardware with a simple increment value which
> is adjusted by multiplying by the adjustment factor and then dividing by
> 1 billion. This calculation is very easy to convert to .adjfine, by simply
> updating the divisor.
> 
> Introduce new helper functions, diff_by_scaled_ppm and adjust_by_scaled_ppm
> which perform the most common calculations used by drivers for this purpose.

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