Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] Fixes for perout configuration in IEP driver

[Jacob Keller]

On 2/20/2025 5:24 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:37:16 -0800 Jacob Keller wrote:
>> On 2/18/2025 10:26 PM, Meghana Malladi wrote:
>>> IEP driver supports both pps and perout signal generation using testptp
>>> application. Currently the driver is missing to incorporate the perout
>>> signal configuration. This series introduces fixes in the driver to
>>> configure perout signal based on the arguments passed by the perout
>>> request.
>>>   
>>
>> This could be interpreted as a feature implementation rather than a fix.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Agreed, ideally we should get a patch for net which rejects
> all currently (as in - in Linus's tree) unsupported settings.
> That would be a fix.
> 
> Then once that's merged add support for the new settings in net-next.
> 
> Hope that makes sense?

+1 on this direction, its important that the driver does not accept
configuration which is incorrect.

Reminds me of my backlog to refactor this whole mess into a
supported_flags field in the PTP ops structure. Maybe it is again time
to revive that.

Thanks,
Jake