Re: [PATCHv4 net-next] ptp/ioctl: support MONOTONIC_RAW timestamps for PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED

[Richard Cochran]

Thomas,

On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 09:38:58AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, May 07 2024 at 21:44, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 02:10:47PM -0700, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:
> >> + * History:
> >> + * v1: Initial implementation.
> >> + *
> >> + * v2: Use the first word of the reserved-field for @clockid. That's
> >> + *     backward compatible since v1 expects all three reserved words
> >> + *     (@rsv[3]) to be 0 while the clockid (first word in v2) for
> >> + *     CLOCK_REALTIME is '0'.

..

> I agree that it wants to be in the commit message, but having the
> version information in the kernel-doc which describes the UAPI is
> sensible and useful. That's where I'd look first and asking a user to
> dig up this information on lore is not really helpful.

But writing "v1, v2" doesn't make sense for this code.  There never
was a "v1" for this ioctl.  At the very least, the change should be
identified by kernel version (or git SHA).

Thanks,
Richard