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Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 06:41:30 -0700 From: Richard Cochran To: Wei Fang Cc: andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, vladimir.oltean@nxp.com, xiaoning.wang@nxp.com, Frank.Li@nxp.com, yangbo.lu@nxp.com, christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, imx@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] ptp: add pulse signal loopback support for debugging Message-ID: References: <20250903083749.1388583-1-wei.fang@nxp.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: imx@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250903083749.1388583-1-wei.fang@nxp.com> On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 04:37:46PM +0800, Wei Fang wrote: > Some PTP devices support looping back the periodic pulse signal for > debugging, What kinds of debugs can be resolved by this loopback feature? It seems pointless to me... Thanks, Richard