Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: Add support for providing the PTP hardware source in tsinfo

[Gal Pressman]

On 22/05/2025 16:40, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
> by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> On Mon, 19 May 2025 10:45:05 +0200 you wrote:
>> Multi-PTP source support within a network topology has been merged,
>> but the hardware timestamp source is not yet exposed to users.
>> Currently, users only see the PTP index, which does not indicate
>> whether the timestamp comes from a PHY or a MAC.
>>
>> Add support for reporting the hwtstamp source using a
>> hwtstamp-source field, alongside hwtstamp-phyindex, to describe
>> the origin of the hardware timestamp.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Here is the summary with links:
>   - [net-next,v4] net: Add support for providing the PTP hardware source in tsinfo
>     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/4ff4d86f6cce
> 
> You are awesome, thank you!

Netdev maintainers,

Was there a discussion about merging this without a selftest that covers
this uapi extension? Is this considered an exception?

Thanks