Re: [PATCH RFC V1 net-next 3/4] net: Let the active time stamping layer be selectable.

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Tue Apr 05 2022 - 20:41:11 EST


On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 10:48:21AM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> Can the ethernet driver select the default one? So any current
> driver which has "if phy_has_hwtstamp() forward_ioctl;" can set
> it to PHY while newer drivers can (or should actually) leave it as
> MAC.

I want to remove all of the phy_has_ stuff from MAC drivers.
MAC/PHY drivers should just implement the in-kernel interfaces.
IMO that is the clean way forward.

Thanks,
Richard