From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: "Sørensen, Stefan" <Stefan.Sorensen@spectralink.com>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"mugunthanvnm@ti.com" <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net:cpsw: Pass unhandled ioctl's on to generic phy ioctl
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:26:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140205112613.GA16453@netboy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391595820.3003.60.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:23:40AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> I would think that it should be a *run-time* option, as I don't like
> forcing people to rebuild their kernel. But perhaps this is esoteric
> enough that the people who care will be doing that anyway.
For PHY time stamping, you need CONFIG_NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING which
adds extra checks into the hot path. I don't think anyone would enable
this by default. People using PHY time stamping are definitely
recompiling for their special use case.
Thanks,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-05 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-04 7:50 [PATCH] net:cpsw: Pass unhandled ioctl's on to generic phy ioctl Stefan Sørensen
2014-02-04 10:50 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-04 15:08 ` Sørensen, Stefan
2014-02-04 21:51 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-05 7:12 ` Richard Cochran
2014-02-05 10:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-05 11:06 ` Christian Riesch
2014-02-05 11:26 ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2014-02-05 7:28 ` Sørensen, Stefan
2014-02-05 8:18 ` Mugunthan V N
2014-02-05 10:49 ` Christian Riesch
2014-02-05 14:15 ` Mugunthan V N
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