Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: disable PTPv1 hw timestamping advertisement

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Nov 02 2020 - 17:20:43 EST


On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 19:02:27 -0700 Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 11:40:42AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:09:10 +0200 Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> > > The TI CPTS does not natively support PTPv1, only PTPv2. But, as it
> > > happens, the CPTS can provide HW timestamp for PTPv1 Sync messages, because
> > > CPTS HW parser looks for PTP messageType id in PTP message octet 0 which
> > > value is 0 for PTPv1. As result, CPTS HW can detect Sync messages for PTPv1
> > > and PTPv2 (Sync messageType = 0 for both), but it fails for any other PTPv1
> > > messages (Delay_req/resp) and will return PTP messageType id 0 for them.
> > >
> > > The commit e9523a5a32a1 ("net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: enable
> > > HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V1_L4_EVENT filter") added PTPv1 hw timestamping
> > > advertisement by mistake, only to make Linux Kernel "timestamping" utility
> > > work, and this causes issues with only PTPv1 compatible HW/SW - Sync HW
> > > timestamped, but Delay_req/resp are not.
> > >
> > > Hence, fix it disabling PTPv1 hw timestamping advertisement, so only PTPv1
> > > compatible HW/SW can properly roll back to SW timestamping.
> > >
> > > Fixes: e9523a5a32a1 ("net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: enable HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V1_L4_EVENT filter")
> > > Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
> >
> > CC: Richard
>
> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!