netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v9 02/13] net: Make dev_get_hwtstamp

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Message-ID: <20240305105627.1d277a76@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 10:56:27 +0100
From: Köry Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v9 02/13] net: Make dev_get_hwtstamp_phylib
 accessible

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:40:48 -0800
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:39:53 +0100 Kory Maincent wrote:
> > Make the dev_get_hwtstamp_phylib function accessible in prevision to use
> > it from ethtool to read the hwtstamp current configuration.  
> 
> ethtool can't be a module, exports are only needed for code which ends
> up being called from modules. 

Ah right!

> > diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> > index f07c8374f29c..7f78aef73fe1 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> > @@ -4005,6 +4005,8 @@ int generic_hwtstamp_set_lower(struct net_device *dev,
> >  int dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib(struct net_device *dev,
> >  			    struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg,
> >  			    struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
> > +int dev_get_hwtstamp_phylib(struct net_device *dev,
> > +			    struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg);  
> 
> since we don't expect modules to call this, how about we move dev_set*
> and the new declaration to net/core/dev.h ?

Ok for me.

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
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