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Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 06:05:02 -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 , Clark Wang , Frank Li , "Y.B. Lu" , "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> X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 01:55:43AM +0000, Wei Fang wrote: > Vladimir helped explain its purpose in the thread, do you still think > it is pointless? Vladimir gave practical examples for the use case, so no objection from my side. I just wanted to understand how this is useful. Next time, it would be helpful to have that info in the cover letter. Thanks, Richard