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>
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Yangbo Lu
2021-06-30 16:11:56 +08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent acb288e804
commit c156174a67
8 changed files with 167 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -757,6 +757,16 @@ void
ethtool_params_from_link_mode(struct ethtool_link_ksettings *link_ksettings,
enum ethtool_link_mode_bit_indices link_mode);
/**
* ethtool_get_phc_vclocks - Derive phc vclocks information, and caller
* is responsible to free memory of vclock_index
* @dev: pointer to net_device structure
* @vclock_index: pointer to pointer of vclock index
*
* Return number of phc vclocks
*/
int ethtool_get_phc_vclocks(struct net_device *dev, int **vclock_index);
/**
* ethtool_sprintf - Write formatted string to ethtool string data
* @data: Pointer to start of string to update