Re: [RFC net-next 0/7] Add basic SyncE interfaces

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Arkadiusz Kubalewski wrote:

The second part can be used to select the port from which the clock gets recovered. Each PHY chip can have multiple pins on which the recovered clock can be propagated. For example, a SyncE-capable PHY can recover the carrier frequency of the first port, divide it internally, and output it as a reference clock on PIN 0.

This really sounds like its own thing, and not a PHC at all.

Next steps:

• Add CONFIG_SYNCE definition into Kconfig
• Add more configuration interfaces. Aiming at devlink, since this would be device-wide configuration

As a first step, finding an appropriate kernel/user space API would be needed.

Thanks, Richard