On 12/20/19 10:15 AM, Richard Cochran wrote: > Some parts of the networking stack and at least one driver test fields > within the 'struct phy_device' in order to query time stamping > capabilities and to invoke time stamping methods. This patch adds a > functional interface around the time stamping fields. This will allow > insulating the callers from future changes to the details of the time > stamping implemenation. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Ideally we may even add locking annotations to make sure that there there is no use after free in that the test is true, you de-reference the PHY device and/or driver method, and boom. All callers appear to be under RTNL right now. -- Florian
