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On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:00:34 +0100 K=C3=B6ry Maincent wrote:
> > Not sure why you say "not used", though. Are you not planning to expose
> > the qualifier as an attribute to the listing of hwtstamp providers
> > offered to user space by ETHTOOL_MSG_TSINFO_GET? =20
>=20
> Yes I will, I was just saying that all the PHC would be set as precise fo=
r now.
> Approximate timestamp quality won't be used because IIUC there are no NIC=
 driver
> supporting it yet.

Agreed that we should add the attr from the start.

Maybe we can ask/work with Rahul <rrameshbabu@nvidia.com>
to implement the right thing in mlx5?

Failing that we can mark mlx5 as imprecise, until its sorted out.
So that we have both types in the tree.