On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 05:20:44PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > "only Intel's driver" is a bit of a worry. Part of being a Maintainer > is to ensure that all drivers behave the same. There should not be any > difference between an Intel PTP device, a Marvell PTP devices, a > Microchip PTP device etc. They should all implement the API in a > uniform way.
Yes, and I appreciate it being on CC even for driver changes. > What i have also seen is that if one driver gets something wrong, > other drivers might as well. Yeah, unfortunately there are many device drivers (not just PTP/network drivers) that get things wrong. These are then copied by the authors of new drivers, and so on. Thanks, Richard
