netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ptp: Add mock device

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Message-ID: <20250203133449.287502ee@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 13:34:49 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ptp: Add mock device

On Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:50:46 +0100 Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> While working on the PTP core or userspace components,
> a real PTP device is not always available.
> Introduce a tiny module which creates a mock PTP device.

FTR we (netdev) do not accept mock devices unless there are selftests
which exercise them in a meaningful way. Otherwise we get a stream
of impossible to judge patches for such devices :(