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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: "Köry Maincent" <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 08/16] net: ethtool: Add a command to expose current time stamping layer
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:50:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZS3MKWlnPqTe8gkq@hoboy.vegasvil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231016124134.6b271f07@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:41:34PM +0200, Köry Maincent wrote:

> Still I am wondering why hardware timestamping capabilities can be enabled
> without phc.

There is hardware that simply provides time values on frames from a
free running clock, and that clock cannot be read, set, or adjusted.

So the time stamps only relate to other time stamps from the same
device.  That might be used for performance analysis.

Thanks,
Richard

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-16 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-09 15:51 [PATCH net-next v5 00/16] net: Make timestamping selectable Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 01/16] net: Convert PHYs hwtstamp callback to use kernel_hwtstamp_config Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:02   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-10 15:37   ` Simon Horman
2023-10-11  8:27     ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-20 20:23   ` kernel test robot
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 02/16] net: phy: Remove the call to phy_mii_ioctl in phy_hwstamp_get/set Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:04   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 03/16] net: ethtool: Refactor identical get_ts_info implementations Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 19:56   ` kernel test robot
2023-10-09 21:06   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-11 21:41   ` Jay Vosburgh
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 04/16] net: macb: Convert to ndo_hwtstamp_get() and ndo_hwtstamp_set() Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:08   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 05/16] net: Make dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib accessible Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:09   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-10  7:40     ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 06/16] net_tstamp: Add TIMESTAMPING SOFTWARE and HARDWARE mask Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:11   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 07/16] net: phy: micrel: fix ts_info value in case of no phc Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:14   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 08/16] net: ethtool: Add a command to expose current time stamping layer Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:20   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-10  8:23     ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-13 16:00       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-13 16:11         ` Andrew Lunn
2023-10-16 10:41           ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-16 14:22             ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-16 15:00               ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-16 15:43                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-16 16:23                   ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-16 17:03                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-16 23:03                       ` Jacob Keller
2023-10-17  9:21                         ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-16 23:50             ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2023-10-17  8:29               ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-13 16:14         ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-10-13 16:30           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-13 17:09             ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-10-13 17:46               ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-13 17:56                 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-10-13 20:15                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 09/16] netlink: specs: Introduce new netlink command to get current timestamp Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:21   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-10  8:40     ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 10/16] net: ethtool: Add a command to list available time stamping layers Köry Maincent
2023-10-13 22:52   ` kernel test robot
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 11/16] netlink: specs: Introduce new netlink " Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:22   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 12/16] net: Replace hwtstamp_source by timestamping layer Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:23   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 13/16] net: Change the API of PHY default timestamp to MAC Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 22:23   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-10 15:52   ` Simon Horman
2023-10-13  1:37   ` kernel test robot
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 14/16] net: ethtool: ts: Update GET_TS to reply the current selected timestamp Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 15/16] net ethtool: net: Let the active time stamping layer be selectable Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:28   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-10-10  8:31     ` Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 16/16] netlink: specs: Introduce time stamping set command Köry Maincent
2023-10-09 21:29   ` Florian Fainelli

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