netdev - Re: Plan to validate supported flags in PTP core (Was: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] Fixes for perout configuration in IEP driver)

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Message-ID: <20250310172541.30896e20@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:25:41 +0100
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc: Meghana Malladi <m-malladi@...com>, Richard Cochran
 <richardcochran@...il.com>, <lokeshvutla@...com>, <vigneshr@...com>,
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Subject: Re: Plan to validate supported flags in PTP core (Was: Re: [PATCH
 net v2 0/2] Fixes for perout configuration in IEP driver)

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 15:48:27 -0800 Jacob Keller wrote:
> Would a series with individual patches for the 3 special cases + one
> patch to handle all the drivers that have no explicit flag check be
> acceptable? Or should I do individual patches for each driver and just
> break the series up? Or are we ok with just fixing this in next with the
> .supported_extts_flags change?

A mass rejection of unsupported settings feels like a net-next material
in general. Handling the more complex cases individually and the rest in
a big patch makes sense.