Re: [PATCH v4 05/14] can: tree-wide: advertise software timestamping capabilities

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On Thu. 28 juil. 2022 at 18:42, Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 27.07.2022 19:16:32, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> > Currently, some CAN drivers support hardware timestamping, some do
> > not. But userland has no method to query which features are supported
> > (aside maybe of getting RX messages and observe whether or not
> > hardware timestamps stay at zero).
> >
> > The canonical way for a network driver to advertised what kind of
> > timestamping it supports is to implement ethtool_ops::get_ts_info().
> >
> > This patch only targets the CAN drivers which *do not* support
> > hardware timestamping.  For each of those CAN drivers, implement the
> > get_ts_info() using the generic ethtool_op_get_ts_info().
> >
> > This way, userland can do:
> >
> > | $ ethtool --show-time-stamping canX
> >
> > to confirm the device timestamping capacities.
> >
> > N.B. the drivers which support hardware timestamping will be migrated
> > in separate patches.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/can/mscan/mscan.c b/drivers/net/can/mscan/mscan.c
> > index 78a21ab63601..b1677588a4c8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/can/mscan/mscan.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/can/mscan/mscan.c
> > @@ -676,6 +676,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_mscandev(void)
> >       priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> >
> >       dev->netdev_ops = &mscan_netdev_ops;
> > +     dev->ethtool_ops = &mscan_ethtool_ops;
> >
> >       dev->flags |= IFF_ECHO; /* we support local echo */
>
> | drivers/net/can/mscan/mscan.c: In function ‘alloc_mscandev’:
> | drivers/net/can/mscan/mscan.c:679:29: error: ‘mscan_ethtool_ops’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> |   679 |         dev->ethtool_ops = &mscan_ethtool_ops;
> |       |                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | drivers/net/can/mscan/mscan.c:679:29: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>
> I'm fixing this.

Thanks for catching this.

mscan does not show up in the menuconfig by default because it
requires CONFIG_PPC. And it is not possible to add CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST
to mscan's KBUILD file because some PPC specific symbols would be
missing. So this is yet another pitfall.


Yours sincerely,
Vincent Mailhol



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