Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/9] net: stmmac: Introduce dwmac1000 ptp_clock_info and operations

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed,  6 Nov 2024 10:03:25 +0100 Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> +		mutex_unlock(&priv->aux_ts_lock);
> +
> +		/* wait for auxts fifo clear to finish */
> +		ret = readl_poll_timeout(ptpaddr + PTP_TCR, tcr_val,
> +					 !(tcr_val & GMAC_PTP_TCR_ATSFC),
> +					 10, 10000);

Is there a good reason to wait for the flush to complete outside of 
the mutex?