netdev - Re: [net-next 1/6] net: rswitch: Move definition of S4 gPTP offset

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Message-ID: <bff98e48-ae2c-489e-b422-3cae28bd0e16@lunn.ch>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:16:09 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se>
Cc: Paul Barker <paul@...rker.dev>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/6] net: rswitch: Move definition of S4 gPTP offset

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 12:10:50PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> The files rcar_gen4_ptp.{c,h} implements an abstraction of the gPTP
> support implemented together with different other IP blocks. The first
> device added which supported this was RSWITCH on R-Car S4.
> 
> While doing so the RSWITCH R-Car S4 specific offset was added to the
> generic Gen4 gPTP header file. Move it to the RSWITCH driver to make it
> clear it only applies to this driver.

This is a nice simple patch to understand, which is good. But i do
wounder about naming schemes. Since this is a RSWITCH define, should
it use the RSWITCH_ prefix? 

Are there other implementations which have an equivalent of
RCAR_GEN4_GPTP_OFFSET_S4? How are they named?

	Andrew