On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 08:25:53PM -0700, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:51:27PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > > So I think the position of "just don't have software timestamping code > > in DSA and you'll be fine" won't be getting us anywhere. Either you can > > or you can't, and there isn't anything absurd about it, so sooner or > > later somebody will want to do it. The rules surrounding it, however, > > are far from being ready, or clear. > > > > Am I missing something? > > I'm just trying to make things easy for you, as the author of DSA > drivers. There is no need to set skb flags that have no purpose > within the stack. > > Nobody is demanding software time stamps from any DSA devices yet, and > so I don't see the point in solving a problem that doesn't exist. > > I'm sorry if the "rules" are not clear, but if you look around the > kernel internals, you will be hard pressed to find perfectly > documented rules anywhere! > > Thanks, > Richard Could we perhaps take a step back and see what can be improved about the documentation updates? Thanks, -Vladimir
