[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next v3 4/7] dp83640: reject unsupported external timestamp flags
Richard Cochran
richardcochran at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 18:28:56 UTC 2019
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:11:06AM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> Fix the dp83640 PTP support to explicitly reject any future flags that
> get added to the external timestamp request ioctl.
>
> In order to maintain currently functioning code, this patch accepts all
> three current flags. This is because the PTP_RISING_EDGE and
> PTP_FALLING_EDGE flags have unclear semantics and each driver seems to
> have interpreted them slightly differently.
This driver has:
flags Meaning
---------------------------------------------------- --------------------------
PTP_ENABLE_FEATURE Time stamp rising edge
PTP_ENABLE_FEATURE|PTP_RISING_EDGE Time stamp rising edge
PTP_ENABLE_FEATURE|PTP_FALLING_EDGE Time stamp falling edge
PTP_ENABLE_FEATURE|PTP_RISING_EDGE|PTP_FALLING_EDGE Time stamp falling edge
> Cc: Stefan Sørensen <stefan.sorensen at spectralink.com>
> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran at gmail.com>
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