Hi Richard,

Is there anything still unclear? What should I do to move this patchset
forward?

Thanks
Hangbin
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 06:11:29PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 08:06:33PM -0700, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:42:49PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > 
> > > In clock_create(), try get ts info first, if failed, try the old way.
> > 
> > How does this sentence relate to this...
> > 
> > > @@ -1001,10 +1001,16 @@ struct clock *clock_create(enum clock_type type, 
> > > struct config *config,
> > >   c->timestamping = timestamping;
> > >   required_modes = clock_required_modes(c);
> > >   STAILQ_FOREACH(iface, &config->interfaces, list) {
> > > -         memset(ts_label, 0, sizeof(ts_label));
> > > -         if (!rtnl_get_ts_device(interface_name(iface), ts_label))
> > > -                 interface_set_label(iface, ts_label);
> > > -         interface_get_tsinfo(iface);
> > > +         /* try find lowerlay device if we can't get iface tsinfo 
> > > directly */
> > > +         if (interface_get_tsinfo(iface) ||
> > > +             (interface_tsinfo_valid(iface) &&
> > > +              !interface_tsmodes_supported(iface, required_modes))) {
> > > +                 memset(ts_label, 0, sizeof(ts_label));
> > > +                 if (!rtnl_get_ts_device(interface_name(iface), 
> > > ts_label))
> > > +                         interface_set_label(iface, ts_label);
> > > +                 interface_get_tsinfo(iface);
> > > +         }
> > 
> > I really have no idea what this is supposed to do.
> > 
> > Why test for
> > 
> >     interface_tsinfo_valid(iface) && !interface_tsmodes_supported(iface, 
> > required_modes)
> > 
> > twice in a row !?!?!?
> 
> If we run the code in old kernel, that bond do not support get_ts_info. The
> kernel will still return 0 and set phc_index to -1, as kernel function
> __ethtool_get_ts_info() did.
> 
> So even interface_get_tsinfo() return 0, we still need to check to make sure
> the tsinfo is valid and tsmode is supported. If all the check failed, we
> fall back to set ts_label and re-do interface_get_tsinfo().
> 
> After this step, we need to re-check the tsinfo_valid and tsmode. Did I
> explain it clear?
> 
> > 
> > > +
> > >           if (interface_tsinfo_valid(iface) &&
> > >               !interface_tsmodes_supported(iface, required_modes)) {
> > 
> > See that ?      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> We can't only check this once. e.g.
> 
>       if (interface_get_tsinfo(iface)) {
>               memset(ts_label, 0, sizeof(ts_label));
>               if (!rtnl_get_ts_device(interface_name(iface), ts_label))
>                       interface_set_label(iface, ts_label);
>               interface_get_tsinfo(iface);
>       }
> 
>       if (interface_tsinfo_valid(iface) &&
>           !interface_tsmodes_supported(iface, required_modes)) {
>           pr_err();
>           return NULL;
>       }
> 
> Thanks
> Hangbin


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