netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] dpll: add clock quality level attribute and op

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Message-ID: <20241028101403.67577dd9@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:14:03 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com, donald.hunter@...il.com, vadim.fedorenko@...ux.dev,
 arkadiusz.kubalewski@...el.com, saeedm@...dia.com, leon@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] dpll: add clock quality level attribute
 and op

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:19:57 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> Not sure what do you mean by "clock info". Dpll device and clock is kind
> >> of the same thing. The dpll device is identified by clock-id. I see no
> >> other attributes on the way this direction to more extend dpll attr
> >> namespace.  
> >
> >I'm not an expert but I think the standard definition of a DPLL
> >does not include a built-in oscillator, if that's what you mean.  
> 
> Okay. Then the clock-id we have also does not make much sense.
> Anyway, what is your desire exactly? Do you want to have a nest attr
> clock-info to contain this quality-level attr? Or something else?

I thought clock-id is basically clockid_t, IOW a reference.
I wish that the information about timekeepers was exposed 
by the time subsystem rather than DPLL. Something like clock_getres().