[PATCH 03/12] phylib: add a driver method for the SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Jun 15 12:53:21 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Grant Likely
<grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Richard Cochran
> <richardcochran at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:27:59AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Richard Cochran
>>> <richardcochran at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > This patch adds a phy driver method for configuring hardware time stamping.
>>> > Drivers may optionally implement this function.
>>> >
>>> > Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran at omicron.at>
>>>
>>> Adding an ioctl to the userspace ABI.  Make sure you cc: linux-kernel
>>> on the next spin of this series.
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. SIOCSHWTSTAMP is a standard socket option as
>> of 2.6.30. The patch just makes it possible for PHY drivers to
>> implement this option.
>
> Ah, sorry.  I didn't go check that first.

Although, now that I'm looking through the PTP patches, you
*definitely* should post this series to the lkml.  It has implications
beyond ppc and arm.

g.



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