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| author | Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com> | 2021-06-30 16:11:56 +0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-07-01 13:08:18 -0700 |
| commit | c156174a67070042d51d2c866146d3c934d5468c (patch) | |
| tree | cf965dceb36a44ea1b61da4c97c18d58163c9e34 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | acb288e8047b7569fbc9af6fa6e9405315345103 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c156174a67070042d51d2c866146d3c934d5468c.tar.gz lwn-c156174a67070042d51d2c866146d3c934d5468c.zip | |
ethtool: add a new command for getting PHC virtual clocks
Add an interface for getting PHC (PTP Hardware Clock)
virtual clocks, which are based on PHC physical clock
providing hardware timestamp to network packets.
Signed-off-by: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index 6ea91e41593f..c86628e6a235 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ Userspace to kernel: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEC_SET`` set FEC settings ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_EEPROM_GET`` read SFP module EEPROM ``ETHTOOL_MSG_STATS_GET`` get standard statistics + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHC_VCLOCKS_GET`` get PHC virtual clocks info ===================================== ================================ Kernel to userspace: @@ -250,6 +251,7 @@ Kernel to userspace: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEC_NTF`` FEC settings ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_EEPROM_GET_REPLY`` read SFP module EEPROM ``ETHTOOL_MSG_STATS_GET_REPLY`` standard statistics + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHC_VCLOCKS_GET_REPLY`` PHC virtual clocks info ======================================== ================================= ``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device @@ -1477,6 +1479,25 @@ Low and high bounds are inclusive, for example: etherStatsPkts512to1023Octets 512 1023 ============================= ==== ==== +PHC_VCLOCKS_GET +=============== + +Query device PHC virtual clocks information. + +Request contents: + + ==================================== ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_PHC_VCLOCKS_HEADER`` nested request header + ==================================== ====== ========================== + +Kernel response contents: + + ==================================== ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_PHC_VCLOCKS_HEADER`` nested reply header + ``ETHTOOL_A_PHC_VCLOCKS_NUM`` u32 PHC virtual clocks number + ``ETHTOOL_A_PHC_VCLOCKS_INDEX`` s32 PHC index array + ==================================== ====== ========================== + Request translation =================== @@ -1575,4 +1596,5 @@ are netlink only. n/a ``ETHTOOL_MSG_CABLE_TEST_ACT`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_MSG_CABLE_TEST_TDR_ACT`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_MSG_TUNNEL_INFO_GET`` + n/a ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHC_VCLOCKS_GET`` =================================== ===================================== |