Re: [patch 0/3] ptp: Provide support for auxiliary clocks for PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:23:39 +0200 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01 2025 at 12:16, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > On 6/26/25 3:27 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:  
> >> It is also available via git with all prerequisite patches:
> >> 
> >>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git timers/ptp/driver-auxclock
> >> 
> >> Miroslav: This branch should enable you to test the actual steering via a
> >> 	  PTP device which has PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED support in the driver.  
> >
> > I have some dumb issues merging this on net-next.
> >
> > It looks like we should pull from the above URL, but it looks like the
> > prereq series there has different hashes WRT the tip tree. Pulling from
> > there will cause good bunch of duplicate commits - the pre-req series vs
> > the tip tree and the ptp cleanup series vs already merge commits on
> > net-next.
> >
> > I guess we want to avoid such duplicates, but I don't see how to avoid
> > all of them. A stable branch on top of current net-next will avoid the
> > ptp cleanup series duplicates, but will not avoid duplicates for
> > prereqs. Am I missing something obvious?  
> 
> No. I messed that up by not telling that the PTP series should be
> applied as a seperate branch, which is merged into net-next. That way I
> could have merged that branch back into tip and apply this pile on top.
> 
> Let me think about an elegant way to make this work without creating an
> utter mess in either of the trees (or both).

Sorry about that, I read the previous cover letter as the branch being
provided for convenience, not that I _should_ pull from it. I should
have asked..