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 7F96A285C98; Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:24:39 +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=1764354279; cv=none; b=TtKUu8lzXfDyss5MExfrMm8+oCePP+koAsaEYgxzr0YShwzrVdwvMC+jeFTnaX8L4Yt/Fd+yp62Vo+jfDXYmwt9ecydPSZf2sTWZirRFjGcKbodz/aDQG0bMbPNVW693lcWLNCMgljjZZqt0jD2pMWz+ERyABqgDaYx+Ea6QFpM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1764354279; c=relaxed/simple; bh=csOAuQjqPwtupHuMiDQshiKp9MzSDrOVqgMXNAU9tNs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=s1PyKrfpJX3dna7FK4NFuNhDq4RgPFFyIGejRzDGS3RqUQLyfaI0jQfjOeKz7ceqMT28F6Y0OkUkHG6El1bBvLEOvDkQWstAKQzlCddXpOs0vq74CMhYwYWB0cBn2B7AEFuiaGs/X59gaqv+pQ0DmwGxtlR3KYiOZKHozGeyJRY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=JVH83LPJ; 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="JVH83LPJ" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FBA4C4CEF1; Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:24:38 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1764354279; bh=csOAuQjqPwtupHuMiDQshiKp9MzSDrOVqgMXNAU9tNs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=JVH83LPJHN44T8O/zzp46qEcRGuTNGhz362mWTErzxaC5q51+SA5bJ2MH3vIZD1/c cd3WsRTGhNngcJOjnKmBki02YhzpstOjc/d2wkFW+Decx8aiZm1LAzWQUT+DhvqdVY Ydlutf2i2u7MM31YtBNyy3nTnyhkgdM0pvJIW2i7fmZvwAzmdHqOBcEsF0sxKrMd+C 0XiFwNr8WVMNw+fUQOyEXt47Ha3m6FYM2ggMcBMChPl712w+BsKhhxZr7SzZr5o+bd c1hNBWG8COzS3XaIB+wViDWQ+pOZVDvChfUkBMgO00ZyrVKq5S4tbT5poopCfiY16M CbzG6hwuhUO6g== Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:24:37 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Wen Gu Cc: Richard Cochran , 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 Message-ID: <20251128102437.7657f88f@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20251030121314.56729-1-guwen@linux.alibaba.com> <20251030121314.56729-2-guwen@linux.alibaba.com> <20251031165820.70353b68@kernel.org> <8a74f801-1de5-4a1d-adc7-66a91221485d@linux.alibaba.com> <20251105162429.37127978@kernel.org> <34b30157-6d67-46ec-abde-da9087fbf318@linux.alibaba.com> <20251127083610.6b66a728@kernel.org> 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 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?