On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 11:14:05PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > The problem is you depend on skbuf->dev->phydev. phydev will be NULL. > net_device does not currently have a phylink member. Even if it did, > you end up add more and more tests looking every place a > mii_timestamper could be placed.
Ok, so the way to do this is to have something like CONFIG_NETWORK_PHYLINK_TIMESTAMPING. We can deal with that if and when any real devices appear. > I'm currently thinking register_mii_timestamper() should take a netdev > argument, and the net_device structure should gain a struct > mii_timestamper. > > But we have to look at the lifetime problems. A phydev does not know > what netdev it is associated to until phy_connect() is called. It is > at that point you can call register_mii_timestamper(). Right, IOW passing a netdev won't work. Thanks, Richard
