From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:28:06 +0200

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 03:31:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

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By this I mean you should provide these inline helpers by default
then we can begin to put them into the drivers.
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This means no config option.

Okay, but what about the PHY time stamping hooks?

I anticipate that people will complain about the "performance penalty"
of these extra checks in a critical path.

If you want to conditionalize the PHY hooks, fine.

But at a minimum, the software timestamping bits should be there by
default.