From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC V1 5/5] net: mdio: Add a driver for InES time stamping IP core.
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 01:06:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180325230618.GC19365@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180325221004.6svjbx54yghwuk7w@localhost>
> > in the future some devices will be MDIO, or I2C, or SPI. Just call it
> > ptpdev. This ptpdev needs to be control bus agnostic. You need a
> > ptpdev core API exposing functions like ptpdev_hwtstamp,
> > ptpdev_rxtstamp, ptpdev_txtstamp, ptpdev_link_change, which take a
> > ptpdev.
>
> Well, this name is not ideal, since time stamping devices in general
> can time stamp any frame, not just PTP frames.
Hi Richard
I don't really care about the name. I care about the semantics of the
API. How about ieee1588_rxtstamp, ieee1588_txtstamp, etc.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-25 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 18:58 [PATCH net-next RFC V1 0/5] Peer to Peer One-Step time stamping Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 18:58 ` [PATCH net-next RFC V1 1/5] net: Introduce peer to peer one step PTP " Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 20:05 ` Keller, Jacob E
2018-03-21 21:26 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 23:51 ` Keller, Jacob E
2018-03-21 18:58 ` [PATCH net-next RFC V1 2/5] net: phy: Move time stamping interface into the generic mdio layer Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 19:10 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-21 21:45 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-24 16:59 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 18:58 ` [PATCH net-next RFC V1 3/5] net: Introduce field for the MII time stamper Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 19:12 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-21 21:51 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-24 17:01 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 18:58 ` [PATCH net-next RFC V1 4/5] net: Use the generic MII time stamper when available Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 18:58 ` [PATCH net-next RFC V1 5/5] net: mdio: Add a driver for InES time stamping IP core Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 19:33 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-21 21:36 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 21:44 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-21 21:57 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 22:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-21 22:47 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-21 23:50 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-24 17:12 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-24 18:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-25 4:51 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-25 15:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-25 22:10 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-25 23:01 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-04-03 3:55 ` Richard Cochran
2018-04-03 13:13 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-03 15:02 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-25 23:01 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-03 4:27 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-25 23:06 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-03-25 22:14 ` Richard Cochran
2018-03-22 0:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-22 1:57 ` Richard Cochran
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