From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com,
dust.li@linux.alibaba.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/2] ptp: introduce Alibaba CIPU PHC driver
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:24:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251128102437.7657f88f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2afb292-287e-4f2f-b131-50a1650bbb1d@linux.alibaba.com>
On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:22:21 +0800 Wen Gu wrote:
> > Could you go complain to clock people? Or virtualization people?
>
> I understand that the PTP implementations in drivers/ptp aren't closely
> related to networking though drivers/ptp is included in NETWORKING DRIVERS
> in the MAINTAINER file.
>
> I noticed that drivers/ptp/* is also inclued in PTP HARDWARE CLOCK SUPPORT.
> This attribution seems more about 'clock'.
>
> Hi @Richard Cochran, could you please review this? Thanks! :)
It's Thanksgiving weekend in the US, Richard may be AFK so excuse my
speaking for him, but he mentioned in the past that he is also not
interested in becoming a maintainer for general clocks, unrelated
to PTP.
Search the mailing list, there are at least 3 drivers like yours being
proposed. Maybe you can get together with also the KVM and VMclock
authors and form a new subsystem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-28 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-30 12:13 [PATCH net-next v5 0/2] ptp: Alibaba CIPU PTP clock driver Wen Gu
2025-10-30 12:13 ` [PATCH net-next v5 1/2] ptp: introduce Alibaba CIPU PHC driver Wen Gu
2025-10-31 23:58 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-05 10:22 ` Wen Gu
2025-11-06 0:24 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-27 5:48 ` Wen Gu
2025-11-27 16:36 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-28 6:22 ` Wen Gu
2025-11-28 18:24 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-12-01 6:04 ` Wen Gu
2025-12-12 6:50 ` Wen Gu
2025-12-12 22:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-12-14 14:03 ` Wen Gu
2025-12-16 21:58 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-12-17 12:40 ` Wen Gu
2025-12-22 7:18 ` Wen Gu
2025-12-18 12:28 ` David Woodhouse
2025-12-22 12:44 ` Wen Gu
2025-10-30 12:13 ` [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] ptp: add sysfs documentation for " Wen Gu
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