[PATCH V2 net-next 4/4] ptp: clarify the clock_name sysfs attribute
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-09-22 07:43:17
Subsystem:
ptp hardware clock support, the rest · Maintainers:
Richard Cochran, Linus Torvalds
There has been some confusion among PHC driver authors about the intended purpose of the clock_name attribute. This patch expands the documation in order to clarify how the clock_name field should be understood. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp
index d40d2b5..c906488 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ Date: September 2010 Contact: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Description: This file contains the name of the PTP hardware clock - as a human readable string. + as a human readable string. The purpose of this + attribute is to provide the user with a "friendly + name" and to help distinguish PHY based devices from + MAC based ones. What: /sys/class/ptp/ptpN/max_adjustment Date: September 2010
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