Re: [PATCHv4 net-next] ptp/ioctl: support MONOTONIC_RAW timestamps for PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED

[Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)]

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 12:50 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 09 2024 at 21:07, Richard Cochran wrote:
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> > Thomas,
> >
> > On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 09:38:58AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 07 2024 at 21:44, Richard Cochran wrote:
> >> > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 02:10:47PM -0700, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:
> >> >> + * History:
> >> >> + * v1: Initial implementation.
> >> >> + *
> >> >> + * v2: Use the first word of the reserved-field for @clockid. That's
> >> >> + *     backward compatible since v1 expects all three reserved words
> >> >> + *     (@rsv[3]) to be 0 while the clockid (first word in v2) for
> >> >> + *     CLOCK_REALTIME is '0'.
> >
> > ..
> >
> >> I agree that it wants to be in the commit message, but having the
> >> version information in the kernel-doc which describes the UAPI is
> >> sensible and useful. That's where I'd look first and asking a user to
> >> dig up this information on lore is not really helpful.
> >
> > But writing "v1, v2" doesn't make sense for this code.  There never
> > was a "v1" for this ioctl.  At the very least, the change should be
> > identified by kernel version (or git SHA).
>
> Adding the git SHA before committing the change is going to be
> challenging :)

Instead of v1/v2, how about I can make it 'prior to kernel 6.10' and
'from 6.10 onwards' etc. (as Richard proposed)?