netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: promote SIOCSHWTSTAMP and SIOCGHWTSTAMP ioctls to dedicated handlers

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Message-ID: <cab59e73-5006-4558-d4db-a393d9e8d02c@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 2 Apr 2023 05:56:33 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Maxim Georgiev <glipus@...il.com>,
        Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>,
        Köry Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: promote SIOCSHWTSTAMP and SIOCGHWTSTAMP
 ioctls to dedicated handlers



On 4/2/2023 5:53 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 05:52:29AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> PS: there could be some interesting use cases with SIO(S|G)MII(REG|PHY) to
>> be explored, but not for now.
> 
> You mean with DSA intercepting them on the master? Details?

Humm, maybe this is an -ENOTENOUGHCOFFEE situation, if we have a 
fixed-link, we would not do anything of value. If we have a PHY-less 
configuration same thing. So it would only be a sort of configuration 
where the switch side has a PHY and the MAC connects to it that would be 
of any value.
-- 
Florian