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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: "Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)" <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>, Don Hatchett <hatch@google.com>,
	Yuliang Li <yuliangli@google.com>,
	Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@bandewar.net>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 net-next 2/3] ptp: add ioctl interface for ptp_gettimex64any()
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 13:07:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZZsSqXLjVG16Q7EL@hoboy.vegasvil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF2d9jhnsubL-sw792ZviSXrFB826G-U8OktdEMN1NCe5zuj0Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 12:08:57AM -0800, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) wrote:

> Having a general solution for posix timers is a nice addition.
> However, expecting a general purpose syscall to eliminate need for
> device ioctl is an unreasonable expectation.

Let me make this clear:

There is no reasonable justification for a new PTP ioctl.

The system call can and should use the the most accurate method
internally to the kernel.

Thanks,
Richard


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-07 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-04 21:24 Mahesh Bandewar
2024-01-04 22:37 ` Richard Cochran
2024-01-05 17:51   ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-01-06  4:55     ` Richard Cochran
2024-01-06  5:03       ` Richard Cochran
2024-01-06  8:08       ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-01-07 21:07         ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2024-01-07 21:13         ` Richard Cochran

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