From: "huangguangbin (A)" <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: <davem@davemloft.net>, <kuba@kernel.org>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<salil.mehta@huawei.com>, <lipeng321@huawei.com>,
<tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND net-next 1/2] net: hns3: add support for PTP
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:44:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47805689-2c52-ea26-49a6-3fbe3aa22a88@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210605155330.GB10328@localhost>
On 2021/6/5 23:53, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 06:37:19PM +0800, huangguangbin (A) wrote:
>>> Need mutex or spinlock to protest against concurrent access.
>>>
>> Ok, thank you. Is it better to add mutex or spinlock in the public place, like ptp_clock_adjtime()?
>> Then there's no need to add mutex or spinlock in all the drives.
>
> No, that is a terrible idea. The class layer has no idea about the
> hardware implementation. Only the driver knows that.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
> .
>
Ok, thanks. We will add mutex or spinlock as your idea, and repost a new version after we test ok.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-07 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-02 2:57 [RESEND net-next 0/2] " Guangbin Huang
2021-06-02 2:57 ` [RESEND net-next 1/2] " Guangbin Huang
2021-06-03 13:14 ` Richard Cochran
2021-06-05 9:54 ` huangguangbin (A)
2021-06-05 15:51 ` Richard Cochran
2021-06-07 2:20 ` huangguangbin (A)
2021-06-03 13:18 ` Richard Cochran
2021-06-05 9:57 ` huangguangbin (A)
2021-06-03 13:22 ` Richard Cochran
2021-06-05 10:37 ` huangguangbin (A)
2021-06-05 15:53 ` Richard Cochran
2021-06-07 2:44 ` huangguangbin (A) [this message]
2021-06-02 2:57 ` [RESEND net-next 2/2] net: hns3: add debugfs support for ptp info Guangbin Huang
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