Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] Intro to Hardware timestamping engine
From: Thierry Reding
Date: Wed Apr 20 2022 - 09:48:03 EST
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 12:46:43AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 7:45 AM Dipen Patel <dipenp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This patch series introduces new subsystem called hardware timestamping
> > engine (HTE). It offers functionality such as timestamping through hardware
> > means in realtime. The HTE subsystem centralizes HTE provider and consumers
> > where providers can register themselves and the consumers can request
> > interested entity which could be lines, GPIO, signals or buses. The
> > HTE subsystem provides timestamp in nano seconds, having said that the provider
> > need to convert the timestamp if its not in that unit. There was upstream
> > discussion about the HTE at
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4c46726d-fa35-1a95-4295-bca37c8b6fe3@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> I like this.
>
> Can you put it in a public git and make it eligible for Stephen Rothwell to
> pull into linux-next and ask him to do so, as we intend to merge this for
> v5.19?
Do you intend to maintain this as part of the pinctrl or GPIO trees with
Dipen as a sub-maintainer? Or would you prefer for this to be a separate
tree?
Thierry
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