Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: phy: add Marvell PHY PTP support

[Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt.kanzenbach@linutronix.de>]

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On Mon Jul 20 2020, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 07:24:46PM -0700, Richard Cochran wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 09:54:07AM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
>> > I'll post the next version of the hellcreek DSA driver probably next
>> > week. I can include a generic ptp_header() function if you like in that
>> > patch series. But, where to put it? ptp core or maybe ptp_classify?
>> 
>> Either place is fine with me.  Maybe it makes most sense in ptp_classify?
>> Please put the re-factoring in a separate patches, before the new
>> driver.
>
> And maybe the new header parsing routine should provide a pointer to a
> structure with the message layout.  Something similar to this (from
> the linuxptp user stack) might work.
>
> struct ptp_header {
> 	uint8_t             tsmt; /* transportSpecific | messageType */
> 	uint8_t             ver;  /* reserved          | versionPTP  */
> 	UInteger16          messageLength;
> 	UInteger8           domainNumber;
> 	Octet               reserved1;
> 	Octet               flagField[2];
> 	Integer64           correction;
> 	UInteger32          reserved2;
> 	struct PortIdentity sourcePortIdentity;
> 	UInteger16          sequenceId;
> 	UInteger8           control;
> 	Integer8            logMessageInterval;
> } PACKED;

Yes, makes sense. It should work.

>
>
> Of course, the structure should use the kernel types that include the
> big endian annotations.

Sure.

Thanks,
Kurt

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