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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:58:18 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Gatien CHEVALLIER <gatien.chevallier@foss.st.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>, "David S. Miller"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: stmmac: allow generation of flexible
 PPS relative to MAC time
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:15:07 +0200 Gatien CHEVALLIER wrote:
> Maybe we could compare the time to the current MAC system
> time and, if the start time is in the past, consider the
> value to be an offset. Therefore, any value set in the past
> would be considered as an offset. I see some implementations
> doing either that or replacing any value set in the past to
> a safe start + a fixed offset.

Let's try this.