From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)" <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Sagi Maimon <maimon.sagi@gmail.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>,
Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@bandewar.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 net-next] ptp/ioctl: support MONOTONIC_RAW timestamps for PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 11:59:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttj4mzxc.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF2d9jjnB7hkjzAdynSMOWwiy9OZEbTrfSQxsVxhF8wwatW9_g@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, May 10 2024 at 09:45, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 12:50 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 09 2024 at 21:07, Richard Cochran wrote:
>>
>> > Thomas,
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 09:38:58AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> >> On Tue, May 07 2024 at 21:44, Richard Cochran wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 02:10:47PM -0700, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:
>> >> >> + * History:
>> >> >> + * v1: Initial implementation.
>> >> >> + *
>> >> >> + * v2: Use the first word of the reserved-field for @clockid. That's
>> >> >> + * backward compatible since v1 expects all three reserved words
>> >> >> + * (@rsv[3]) to be 0 while the clockid (first word in v2) for
>> >> >> + * CLOCK_REALTIME is '0'.
>> >
>> > ..
>> >
>> >> I agree that it wants to be in the commit message, but having the
>> >> version information in the kernel-doc which describes the UAPI is
>> >> sensible and useful. That's where I'd look first and asking a user to
>> >> dig up this information on lore is not really helpful.
>> >
>> > But writing "v1, v2" doesn't make sense for this code. There never
>> > was a "v1" for this ioctl. At the very least, the change should be
>> > identified by kernel version (or git SHA).
>>
>> Adding the git SHA before committing the change is going to be
>> challenging :)
>
> Instead of v1/v2, how about I can make it 'prior to kernel 6.10' and
> 'from 6.10 onwards' etc. (as Richard proposed)?
Sure
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-11 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-02 21:10 [PATCHv4 net-next] ptp/ioctl: support MONOTONIC_RAW timestamps for PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED Mahesh Bandewar
2024-05-07 8:42 ` Paolo Abeni
2024-05-08 4:44 ` Richard Cochran
2024-05-08 7:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-05-10 4:07 ` Richard Cochran
2024-05-10 7:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-05-10 16:45 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-05-11 9:59 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2024-05-09 2:48 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-05-08 7:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-05-09 2:53 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-05-10 21:27 ` Yuliang Li
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