Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/3] r8169: add PTP hardware clock support for RTL8127a

From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 15:52:26 EST


On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 10:30:21AM +0800, javen wrote:
> From: Javen Xu <javen_xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> RTL8127a has a PTP clock in its PHY, accessed through the PHY OCP
> interface. Register it as a PTP hardware clock supporting adjfine,
> adjtime, gettimex64 and settime64.

What PHY is this? Why is the PHY driver not exporting the clock, like
other PHY drivers do.

Andrew