RE: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: micrel: Fix latency issues in LAN8814 PHY

From: Divya.Koppera
Date: Wed Jul 06 2022 - 07:57:47 EST


Hi Andrew,

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: micrel: Fix latency issues in LAN8814
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> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 04:35:54PM +0530, Divya Koppera wrote:
> > Latency adjustments done for 1-step and 2-step from default latency
> > register values to fix negative and high mean path delays.
>
> You forgot to Cc: the PTP maintainer.
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> Doesn't this change break user space tools which have already measured the
> latency and is doing a correction?

This corrections can be done using user space tools. But I tried to fix it in phy rather than giving chance to application.

This will work on only certain platforms. So I'm dropping this change to get into kernel.

Thanks
Divya

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> Andrew