While PHY time stamping drivers can simply attach their interface
directly to the PHY instance, stand alone drivers require support in
order to manage their services. Non-PHY MII time stamping drivers
have a control interface over another bus like I2C, SPI, UART, or via
a memory mapped peripheral. The controller device will be associated
with one or more time stamping channels, each of which sits snoops in
on a MII bus.
This patch provides a glue layer that will enable time stamping
channels to find their controlling device.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently the stack supports time stamping in PHY devices. However,
there are newer, non-PHY devices that can snoop an MII bus and provide
time stamps. In order to support such devices, this patch introduces
a new interface to be used by both PHY and non-PHY devices.
In addition, the one and only user of the old PHY time stamping API is
converted to the new interface.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Richard Cochran