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From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
To: Harini Katakam <harinikatakamlinux@gmail.com>,
	Rafal Ozieblo <rafalo@cadence.com>
Cc: Andrei Pistirica <andrei.pistirica@microchip.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] macb: Common code to enable ptp support for MACB/GEM
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:12:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bf44464-6f85-64a9-a660-8d2c44015eb9@atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFcVECLuWM65zXJWtMcwijZ1ZbtH0pvKnTUR=SJagPGHEr9amg@mail.gmail.com>

Le 27/01/2017 à 06:42, Harini Katakam a écrit :
> Hi Rafal,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Rafal Ozieblo <rafalo@cadence.com> wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Andrei Pistirica [mailto:andrei.pistirica@microchip.com]
>>> Sent: 19 stycznia 2017 16:56
>>> Subject: [PATCH net-next v2] macb: Common code to enable ptp support for MACB/GEM
>>>
>>>
>>> +static inline bool gem_has_ptp(struct macb *bp)
>>> +{
>>> +     return !!(bp->caps & MACB_CAPS_GEM_HAS_PTP);
>>> +}
>> Why don't you use hardware capabilities here? Would it be better to read it from hardware instead adding it to many configuration?
> 
> If you are referring to TSU bit in DCFG5, then we will be relying on
> Cadence IP's information irrespective of the SoC capability
> and whether the PTP support was adequate.
> I think the capability approach gives better control and
> it is not really much to add.

Yes, absolutely. In fact we already had this discussion and decided that
this capability scheme was giving much more control at low cost.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-27 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-19 15:56 [PATCH net-next v2] macb: Common code to enable ptp support for MACB/GEM Andrei Pistirica
2017-01-19 16:07 ` Nicolas Ferre
2017-01-25  9:26   ` Nicolas Ferre
2017-01-25  9:37     ` Harini Katakam
2017-01-26 15:15 ` Rafal Ozieblo
2017-01-27  5:42   ` Harini Katakam
2017-01-27 10:12     ` Nicolas Ferre [this message]
2017-01-27 10:26     ` Rafal Ozieblo
2017-01-27 10:27       ` Nicolas Ferre
2017-01-27 11:06         ` Rafal Ozieblo

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