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Date:   Tue, 5 Apr 2022 15:29:05 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V1 net-next 3/4] net: Let the active time stamping
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> > Yes, the limitations described above are exactly one of the reasons to
> > make the timestamping layer configurable at run time as done by these
> > patches.
> 
> Seems like PHY TS support belongs to HW description category, so could it be device tree material,
> like generic property defining which layer should do timestamping?

Maybe. Device tree is supposed to describe the hardware, not how you
configure the hardware. Which PTP you using is a configuration choice,
so i expect some people will argue it should not be in DT.

   Andrew