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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PHC device sharing between PCI functions
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 17:53:40 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 03:34:26PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 07:36 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > 
> > The aliases would not bother me, as long as the ethtool interface-to-phc
> > association works properly.
> 
> Well what would be 'properly' in this case?

If a PCIe card provides one interface eth0 and four PHC devcies
/dev/ptp0-3, then doing 'ethtool -T eth0' should show PHC index 0.

Thanks,
Richard