Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] Intro to Hardware timestamping engine

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:47 PM Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 12:46:43AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 7:45 AM Dipen Patel <dipenp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > This patch series introduces new subsystem called hardware timestamping
> > > engine (HTE). It offers functionality such as timestamping through hardware
> > > means in realtime. The HTE subsystem centralizes HTE provider and consumers
> > > where providers can register themselves and the consumers can request
> > > interested entity which could be lines, GPIO, signals or buses. The
> > > HTE subsystem provides timestamp in nano seconds, having said that the provider
> > > need to convert the timestamp if its not in that unit. There was upstream
> > > discussion about the HTE at
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4c46726d-fa35-1a95-4295-bca37c8b6fe3@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > I like this.
> >
> > Can you put it in a public git and make it eligible for Stephen Rothwell to
> > pull into linux-next and ask him to do so, as we intend to merge this for
> > v5.19?
>
> Do you intend to maintain this as part of the pinctrl or GPIO trees with
> Dipen as a sub-maintainer? Or would you prefer for this to be a separate
> tree?

It has nothing to do with pin control but a bit to do with GPIO and IIO.
I think it needs to be its own tree just like regulators or clocks.

Yours,
Linus Walleij