Re: [PATCH net-next v5 3/5] net: phy: Kconfig: Add ptp library support and 1588 optional flag in Microchip phys
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Dec 05 2024 - 09:36:00 EST
> > And has Microchip finial decided not to keep reinventing the wheel, and there
> > will never be a new PHY implementation? I ask, because what would its
> > KCONFIG symbol be?
> >
>
> For all future Microchip PHYs PTP IP will be same, hence the
> implementation and kconfig symbol is under MICROCHIP_PHYPTP to keep
> it more generic.
So you would be happy for me to NACK all new PHY PTP implementations?
Are you management happy with this statement?
Even if they are, i still think you need a less generic KCONFIG
symbol, i doubt somebody somewhere in Microchip can resist making yet
another PTP implementation.
Andrew