netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: stmmac: allow generation of flexible PPS relative to MAC time

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Message-ID: <20250728085818.5c7a1e45@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:58:18 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Gatien CHEVALLIER <gatien.chevallier@...s.st.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>, Alexandre
 Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>, Richard Cochran
 <richardcochran@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com>,
 <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: stmmac: allow generation of flexible
 PPS relative to MAC time

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:15:07 +0200 Gatien CHEVALLIER wrote:
> Maybe we could compare the time to the current MAC system
> time and, if the start time is in the past, consider the
> value to be an offset. Therefore, any value set in the past
> would be considered as an offset. I see some implementations
> doing either that or replacing any value set in the past to
> a safe start + a fixed offset.

Let's try this.