Re: Plan to validate supported flags in PTP core (Was: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] Fixes for perout configuration in IEP driver)

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Mar 10 2025 - 12:25:54 EST


On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 15:48:27 -0800 Jacob Keller wrote:
> Would a series with individual patches for the 3 special cases + one
> patch to handle all the drivers that have no explicit flag check be
> acceptable? Or should I do individual patches for each driver and just
> break the series up? Or are we ok with just fixing this in next with the
> .supported_extts_flags change?

A mass rejection of unsupported settings feels like a net-next material
in general. Handling the more complex cases individually and the rest in
a big patch makes sense.