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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v5 08/16] net: ethtool: Add a command to expose current time stamping layer
On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:41:34 +0200 Köry Maincent wrote:
> > Netdev vs phylib is an implementation detail of Linux.
> > I'm also surprised that you changed this.
>
> This is the main reason I changed this. This is Linux implementation purpose to
> know whether it should go through netdev or phylib, and then each of these
> drivers could use other timestamps which are hardware related.

For an integrated design there's 90% chance the stamping is done
by the MAC. Even if it isn't there's no difference between PHY
and MAC in terms of quality.

But there is a big difference between MAC/PHY and DMA which would
both fall under NETDEV?

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