From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: allow MAC drivers to override ethtool get_ts_info
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:22:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YAmqTUdMXOmd/rYI@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210121150611.GA20321@hoboy.vegasvil.org>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 07:06:11AM -0800, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:27:38AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > As I already explained to you, you can *NOT* use kernel configuration
> > to make the choice. ARM is a multi-platform kernel, and we will not
> > stand for platform choices dictated by kernel configuration options.
>
> This has nothing to do with ARM as a platform. The same limitation
> applies to x86 and all the rest.
>
> The networking stack does not support simultaneous PHY and MAC time
> stamping.
Hi Richard
And this appears to be the crux of the problem.
You say PHY timestamping is exotic. I would disagree with that. Many
Marvell PHYs support it, using similar hardware as to what is in the
Marvell DSA switches. The Aquantia PHYs support it, but have no driver
support at the moment. Microsemi PHYs have driver support for
it. There are Broadcom PHYs with the needed hardware. So does some of
the Qualcom PHYs. There are automotive T1 PHYs with PTP hardware
support. Some Realtek devices have the hardware.
There is a growing interesting in PTP, the number of drivers keeps
going up. The likelihood of MAC/PHY combination having two
timestamping sources is growing all the time. So the stack needs to
change to support the selection of the timestamp source.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-10 11:13 [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: allow MAC drivers to override ethtool get_ts_info Russell King
2021-01-10 16:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-01-14 3:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-14 17:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-14 17:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-14 12:55 ` Richard Cochran
2021-01-14 13:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-14 13:32 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-14 17:27 ` Richard Cochran
2021-01-14 17:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-14 22:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-21 4:04 ` Richard Cochran
2021-01-21 10:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-21 15:06 ` Richard Cochran
2021-01-21 16:22 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-01-21 17:03 ` Richard Cochran
2021-01-21 18:55 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-01-21 22:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-21 18:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
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