[PATCH net-next 2/5] net: stmmac: fix PPS capture input index

Johannes Zink j.zink at pengutronix.de
Tue Oct 17 22:55:21 PDT 2023


Hi Jakub, hi Marc,

On 10/18/23 01:50, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:27:41 +0200 Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>> Would be good to clarify what impact on device operation the problem
>>> has. How would end user notice the problem?
>>> Does it mean snapshots were always or never enabled, previously?
>>
>> On all dwmac devices not covered by dwmac-intel.c (INTEL 10/100/1000
>> Ethernet PCI driver), PPS capture can be requested from user-space, but
>> is not enabled in HW. There is no error message or other feedback to the
>> user space. The user space will not get any PPS events.
>>
>> As this change also affects the Intel driver, and we don't have any
>> hardware to test, I think it's better that this goes via net-next to
>> give it a bit more time of testing.

I have also CC'ed Kurt in this series, as I know he has at least some hardware 
at hand, though I cannot tell whether he has any chance to test the PPS 
capture. Maybe he has a possibility to try it out. However, giving it a spin in 
net-next SGTM.

> 
> SGTM, we can chalk it up to "never worked, doesn't hurt anyone"
> and put it in net-next. But then the Fixes tag must go.
> 

sure, that's fine for me. I will reword the commit messages and send a v2.

Best regards,
Johannes

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