netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: remove legacy way to get/set HW timestamp config

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Message-ID: <20260115125815.299accc6@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:58:15 +0100
From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@...ux.dev>
Cc: 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>, Richard Cochran
 <richardcochran@...il.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan
 <shuah@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: remove legacy way to get/set HW
 timestamp config

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:44:13 +0000
Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@...ux.dev> wrote:

> With all drivers converted to use ndo_hwstamp callbacks the legacy way
> can be removed, marking ioctl interface as deprecated.

Thanks for all this work converting drivers to ndo_hwtstamp!

Maybe you can also remove this:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c#L1834

And in the driver development part of the documentation to avoid any new driver
with it:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst#L630

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com