Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] net: Let the active time stamping layer be selectable.

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Fri Mar 17 2023 - 23:39:07 EST


On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 05:21:50PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 04:09:20PM +0100, Köry Maincent wrote:
> > Was there any useful work that could be continued on managing timestamp through
> > NDOs. As it seem we will made some change to the timestamp API, maybe it is a
> > good time to also take care of this.
>
> Not to my knowledge. Yes, I agree that it would be a good time to add an
> NDO for hwtimestamping (while keeping the ioctl fallback), then
> transitioning as many devices as we can, and removing the fallback when
> the transition is complete.

Um, user space ABI cannot be removed.

Thanks,
Richard