Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] PTP: Add flag for non-periodic output

[Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Richard,

Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:20:37AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> When this new flag is set, we can use single-shot output.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>  include/uapi/linux/ptp_clock.h | 4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ptp_clock.h b/include/uapi/linux/ptp_clock.h
>> index 674db7de64f3..439cbdfc3d9b 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/ptp_clock.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ptp_clock.h
>> @@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ struct ptp_perout_request {
>>  	struct ptp_clock_time start;  /* Absolute start time. */
>>  	struct ptp_clock_time period; /* Desired period, zero means disable. */
>>  	unsigned int index;           /* Which channel to configure. */
>> -	unsigned int flags;           /* Reserved for future use. */
>> +
>> +#define PTP_PEROUT_ONE_SHOT BIT(0)
>> +	unsigned int flags;           /* Bit 0 -> oneshot output. */
>>  	unsigned int rsv[4];          /* Reserved for future use. */
>
> Unfortunately, the code never checked that .flags and .rsv are zero,
> and so the de-facto ABI makes extending these fields impossible.  That
> was my mistake from the beginning.
>
> In order to actually support extensions, you will first have to
> introduce a new ioctl.

No worries, I'll work on this after vacations (I'll off for 2 weeks
starting next week). I thought about adding a new IOCTL until I saw that
rsv field. Oh well :-)

-- 
balbi