The concept of timestamping DSA switches / Ethernet PHYs is becoming
more and more popular, however the Linux kernel timestamping code has
evolved quite organically and there's layers upon layers of new and old
code that need to work together for things to behave as expected.
Add this chapter to explain what the overall goals are.
Loosely based upon this email discussion plus some more info:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/6/481
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>