On Sat Mar 23 2024, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

On Sat, Mar 23 2024 at 01:38, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

quoted

PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED moves the outer sample points as close as
possible to the actual PCH read and provides both outer samples to user
space for analysis. It was introduced for a reason, no?

That said, it's a sad state of affairs that 16 drivers which did exist
before the introduction of the gettimex64() callback have not been
converted over to it within 4.5 years.

What's even worse is that 14 drivers have been merged _after_ the
gettimex64() callback got introduced without implementing it:

[...]

2020-11-05   drivers/net/dsa/hirschmann/hellcreek_ptp.c

Oh, my bad. Let me switch this one to gettimex64() then.

Thanks,
Kurt