netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 08/16] net: ethtool: Add a command to expose current time stamping layer

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Message-ID: <20231118182424.2d569940@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:24:24 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 08/16] net: ethtool: Add a command to expose
 current time stamping layer

On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:28:36 +0100 Kory Maincent wrote:
> +		ops->get_ts_info(dev, &ts_info);
> +		if (ts_info.so_timestamping &
> +		    SOF_TIMESTAMPING_HARDWARE_MASK)
> +			data->ts_layer = MAC_TIMESTAMPING;
> +
> +		if (ts_info.so_timestamping &
> +		    SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE_MASK)
> +			data->ts_layer = SOFTWARE_TIMESTAMPING;

How does this work? so_timestamping is capabilities, not what's
enabled now. So if driver supports SW stamping we always return
SOFTWARE?