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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yangbo.lu@nxp.com,
	john.stultz@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	sean.j.christopherson@intel.com, maz@kernel.org,
	Mark.Rutland@arm.com, will@kernel.org, suzuki.poulose@arm.com,
	steven.price@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Steve.Capper@arm.com, Kaly.Xin@arm.com, justin.he@arm.com,
	Wei.Chen@arm.com, nd@arm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v12 09/11] ptp: extend input argument for getcrosstimestamp API
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 18:42:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200524014220.GA335@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200522083724.38182-10-jianyong.wu@arm.com>

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:37:22PM +0800, Jianyong Wu wrote:
> sometimes we may need tell getcrosstimestamp call back how to perform
> itself. Extending input arguments for getcrosstimestamp API to offer more
> exquisite control for the operation.

This text does not offer any justification for the change in API.
 
> diff --git a/include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h b/include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h
> index c602670bbffb..ba765647e54b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h
> @@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ struct ptp_clock_info {
>  	int (*gettimex64)(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, struct timespec64 *ts,
>  			  struct ptp_system_timestamp *sts);
>  	int (*getcrosststamp)(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp,
> -			      struct system_device_crosststamp *cts);
> +			      struct system_device_crosststamp *cts,
> +			      long *flag);

Well, you ignored the kernel doc completely.  But in any case, I must
NAK this completely opaque and mysterious change.  You want to add a
random pointer to some flag?  I don't think so.

Thanks,
Richard



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-24  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-22  8:37 [RFC PATCH v12 0/11] Enable ptp_kvm for arm64 Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 01/11] arm64: Probe for the presence of KVM hypervisor services during boot Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 02/11] arm/arm64: KVM: Advertise KVM UID to guests via SMCCC Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 03/11] psci: export smccc conduit get helper Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 13:12   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-05-25  1:37     ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-26 10:10       ` Sudeep Holla
2020-05-27  1:18         ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 04/11] ptp: Reorganize ptp_kvm modules to make it arch-independent Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 05/11] time: Add mechanism to recognize clocksource in time_get_snapshot Jianyong Wu
2020-05-28 16:36   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-29  1:05     ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 06/11] clocksource: Add clocksource id for arm arch counter Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 07/11] psci: Add hypercall service for kvm ptp Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 14:18   ` Steven Price
2020-05-25  2:11     ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-26 11:02       ` Steven Price
2020-05-27  6:06         ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 08/11] ptp: arm64: Enable ptp_kvm for arm/arm64 Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 09/11] ptp: extend input argument for getcrosstimestamp API Jianyong Wu
2020-05-24  1:42   ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 10/11] arm64: add mechanism to let user choose which counter to return Jianyong Wu
2020-05-24  1:47   ` Richard Cochran
2020-05-24  2:11   ` Richard Cochran
2020-05-25  4:50     ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-25  6:16       ` Richard Cochran
2020-05-25  6:29         ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-25  9:17     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-25 14:18       ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-25 15:28         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-22  8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 11/11] arm64: Add kvm capability check extension for ptp_kvm Jianyong Wu

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