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From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 9/9] net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: add
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On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 03:00:50AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:45:56PM -0800, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > Yes, that would make sense.  It would bring sysfs back to feature
> > parity with the ioctls.
> 
> Which is a good thing?

Yes, of course it is.  I'm sorry I didn't insist on it in the first place!
 
> Anyway, Christian, if you do decide to do that, here's some context why
> I didn't do it when I added the additional knobs for periodic output:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04150.html

I think Christian is proposing a different sysfs file, not a flag in
the existing ones.  That makes sense to me.

Thanks,
Richard