netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] net: Let the active time stamping layer be selectable.

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Date:   Sat, 4 Mar 2023 20:46:05 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Köry Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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        Alexandru Tachici <alexandru.tachici@...log.com>,
        Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] net: Let the active time stamping layer be
 selectable.

> The timestamping part is via the netdev, which is a separate entity,
> and its that entity which is responsible for identifying which PHC it
> is connected to (normally by filling in the phc_index field of
> ethtool_ts_info.)
> 
> Think of is as:
> 
>   netdev ---- timestamping ---- PHC
> 
> since we can have:
> 
>   netdev1 ---- timestamping \
>   netdev2 ---- timestamping -*--- PHC
>   netdev3 ---- timestamping /
> 
> Since the ioctl is to do with requesting what we want the timestamping
> layer to be doing with packets, putting it in ptp_clock_info makes
> very little sense.

So there does not appear to be an object to represent a time stamper?

Should one be added? It looks like it needs two ops hwtstamp_set() and
hwtstamp_get(). It would then be registered with the ptp core. And
then the rest of what i said would apply...

	Andrew