[PATCH net-next v9 02/11] Documentation: networking: Add timestamp related APIs to OA TC6 framework
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REVIEWED: 8 (8M)
From: Selvamani Rajagopal via B4 Relay <devnull+Selvamani.Rajagopal.onsemi.com@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-10-09 17:12:25
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documentation, networking [general], open alliance 10base-t1s macphy serial interface framework, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Parthiban Veerasooran, Linus Torvalds
1 review trailer.
From: Selvamani Rajagopal <redacted>
Added new APIs to support hardware timestamp feature as defined in
OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY serial interface specification.
Added the newer read/write APIs that takes MMS as one of its parameters
as these were not documented so far.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Selvamani Rajagopal <redacted>
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changes in v9
- Added Reviewed tag
changes in v8
- Updated the the order of the parameters in oa_tc6_read_register_mms
and oa_tc6_write_register_mms apis.
- Removed the reference to ioctl
changes in v7
- No change
changes in v6
- No change
changes in v5
- Fixed "no blank line" issues in four places
changes in v4
- Added information for new APIs in OA TC6 framework
changes in v3
- Added more information for documentation
changes in v2
- Removed the changes to the existing API
- Updated information about newly added APIs
changes in v1
- Added changes to an existing API
- Added documentation to new hardware timestamp related APIs
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Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst b/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst
index 2545ef694016..3cfe8cb7cf75 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ OPEN Alliance TC6 Framework - Forwards the received Ethernet frame from 10Base-T1x MAC-PHY to n/w subsystem. +- If supported by the hardware and enabled, updates hardware timestamp + in skb, when indicated by one of the three timestamp capture registers + through TSC fields of the header. + Data Transaction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -496,3 +500,58 @@ the MAC-PHY. Zero align receive frame feature can be enabled to align all receive ethernet frames data to start at the beginning of any receive data chunk payload with a start word offset (SWO) of zero. + +.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_ptp_register(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \ + struct ptp_clock_info *info); + +Registers the PTP hardware clock related functions with the kernel. +This API simply registers. Initialization of the fields in the +ptp_clock_info structure are left to the vendor as programming hardware +timer is expected to be vendor dependent. The fields max_adj, owner, +and all the functions for the clock operations, like adjfine, gettimex64, +settime64, adjtime are expected to be initialized in the structure before +calling the registering the hardware clock. + +.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_ptp_unregister(struct oa_tc6 *tc6); + +Unregisters the PTP hardware clock related callbacks. + +.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_get_ts_info(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \ + struct kernel_ethtool_ts_info *info); + +Provides timestamp related settings that are supported to ethtool. + +.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_hwtstamp_get(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \ + struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg); + +Returns hardware timestamp configuration. Part of net_device_ops callbacks. + +.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_get_ts_stats(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \ + struct ethtool_ts_stats *ts_stats); + +Provides hardware timestamp related traffic statistics for ethtool. + +.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_hwtstamp_set(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \ + struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg); + +Helper to set hardware timestamp configuration. Part of net_device_ops +callbacks. + +.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_set_vend1_mms(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, int mms); + +Helper to map MDIO_MMD_VEND1 command to vendor specific Memory Map Select +(MMS) value. This function offers flexibility for vendors that may have +used any MMS value between 10 and 15 as allowed by the specification. +MDIO_MMD_VEND2 is already mapped to MMS4 in the OA TC6 frame work code. + +.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_write_register_mms(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \ + u8 mms, u16 address, \ + u32 value); + +Write a single register addressed by @mms and @address in the MAC-PHY. + +.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_read_register_mms(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \ + u8 mms, u16 address, \ + u32 *value); + +Read a single register addressed by @mms and @address in the MAC-PHY.
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