From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E4FE1388; Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761615026; cv=none; b=j9v9DHJIP86LhTDz1uinsrXO5NJPKq6hWyDAVle/2j/ca+Mz+7DMNbCyp8uGcpxGd0yg0BYs9+wWv95uxW7z3rrTqsTq1+vI847Cqjjh0Qv0VuE0MqI/iBjwvRQihbN58j9KsApMRsvZSqoCwAKYLSQZlZJJDLqkxL+pBHlXYKo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761615026; c=relaxed/simple; bh=eMWI0IDIfjL7fqmnNvq+dSCX3slzTb//Jge4YdkRWHY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=VtF4jwEXMTMVO2aIQ+IInnoOFrO2eyRZloanwOpugZhoIkdbFvA0w+KYURRmViUX83c9TXXTF7hJCNmXxkS75VJgZBTPxws8NxTAY4cy3mCOY7+zLBP3Ouw4Hn+qpmF5MF+5DCWf9R+j8Eb0jh0CCXlzSK+mK9UlqsyXzRiapsk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=d6nc+2XN; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="d6nc+2XN" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 751B4C4CEF1; Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:30:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1761615025; bh=eMWI0IDIfjL7fqmnNvq+dSCX3slzTb//Jge4YdkRWHY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=d6nc+2XN450X/W7Kf6J9ZKKmILICRBXhiv0KGyNNwxnwS+Cg2g2BkKegFp2RRGNtR xLGxI/5MLjdjJs7zTgHOn7RYU0f3WHsdJgJ9IXCoqHxiHuDnaLuqmFywboH7ikBRKZ P3aM2zjyG1eKN+vbBj/rYTaSrQD1Nux1zbv3l9PZOYesYe5at7caHfBmjMQkBCtmxb Lpw6/BqFmmqgyW8UdoNdTdzG6Qn9kr+7P1nn2DGKoxDRQKOzcin9ZO9I4KkmQPAGHG QqH+D0gsvjNdcPDhUGvsK7d7pDd0LV4wXVFAsxVSfeJVckDqvvRllprdI3y21F0T4H HbE/ZFRwQk1GQ== Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:30:23 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Ajay Kaher Cc: vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev, davem@davemloft.net, richardcochran@gmail.com, nick.shi@broadcom.com, alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, jiashengjiangcool@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch, viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com, wei.fang@nxp.com, rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk, vladimir.oltean@nxp.com, cjubran@nvidia.com, dtatulea@nvidia.com, tariqt@nvidia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, florian.fainelli@broadcom.com, vamsi-krishna.brahmajosyula@broadcom.com, tapas.kundu@broadcom.com, shubham-sg.gupta@broadcom.com, karen.wang@broadcom.com, hari-krishna.ginka@broadcom.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] ptp/ptp_vmw: enhancements to ptp_vmw Message-ID: <20251027183023.45a76082@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20251023131048.3718441-1-ajay.kaher@broadcom.com> References: <20251023131048.3718441-1-ajay.kaher@broadcom.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:10:46 +0000 Ajay Kaher wrote: > This series provides: > > - implementation of PTP clock adjustments ops for ptp_vmw driver to > adjust its time and frequency, allowing time transfer from a virtual > machine to the underlying hypervisor. > > - add a module parameter probe_hv_port that allows ptp_vmw driver to > be loaded even when ACPI is disabled, by directly probing for the > device using VMware hypervisor port commands. We'd like to get out of the business of representing pure VM clocks as PTP devices, see: https://lore.kernel.org/20250815113814.5e135318@kernel.org Your driver is already in the tree which is a bit awkward but I'd prefer to resolve that discussion before we add any more functionality to such clocks. -- pw-bot: cr