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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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
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> > 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