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Message-ID: <Y7678lFYTzDFc27j@lunn.ch>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:38:58 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Enable PTP receive for
 mv88e6390

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 09:04:17AM +0100, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
> The switch receives management traffic such as STP and LLDP. However, PTP
> messages are not received, only transmitted.
> 
> Ideally, the switch would trap all PTP messages to the management CPU. This
> particular switch has a PTP block which identifies PTP messages and traps them
> to a dedicated port. There is a register to program this destination. This is
> not used at the moment.
> 
> Therefore, program it to the same port as the MGMT traffic is trapped to. This
> allows to receive PTP messages as soon as timestamping is enabled.
> 
> In addition, the datasheet mentions that this register is not valid e.g. for
> 6190 variants. So, add a new cpu port method for 6390 which programs the MGTM
> and PTP destination.

The mv88e6190x_ops and ops mv88e6190_ops structure does not have a
ptp_ops member. So these two devices do not support PTP.

I think it would be cleaner to implement setting the PTP MGMT port as
part of the ptp_ops. Maybe add a new op, which is called from
mv88e6xxx_ptp_setup() if set?

	Andrew

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