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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/ptp/Kconfig, branch v6.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>net: pch_gbe: Allow build on MIPS_GENERIC kernel</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T02:18:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-07T05:59:53+00:00</published>
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MIPS Boston board, which is using MIPS_GENERIC kernel is using
EG20T PCH and thus need this driver.

Dependency of PCH_GBE, PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH is also fixed for
MIPS_GENERIC.

Note that CONFIG_PCH_GBE is selected in arch/mips/configs/generic/
board-boston.config for a while, some how it's never wired up
in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230607055953.34110-1-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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MIPS Boston board, which is using MIPS_GENERIC kernel is using
EG20T PCH and thus need this driver.

Dependency of PCH_GBE, PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH is also fixed for
MIPS_GENERIC.

Note that CONFIG_PCH_GBE is selected in arch/mips/configs/generic/
board-boston.config for a while, some how it's never wired up
in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230607055953.34110-1-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptp: add ToD device driver for Intel FPGA cards</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T04:25:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tianfei Zhang</name>
<email>tianfei.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-28T14:24:55+00:00</published>
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Adding a DFL (Device Feature List) device driver of ToD device for
Intel FPGA cards.

The Intel FPGA Time of Day(ToD) IP within the FPGA DFL bus is exposed
as PTP Hardware clock(PHC) device to the Linux PTP stack to synchronize
the system clock to its ToD information using phc2sys utility of the
Linux PTP stack. The DFL is a hardware List within FPGA, which defines
a linked list of feature headers within the device MMIO space to provide
an extensible way of adding subdevice features.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Khadatare &lt;raghavendrax.anand.khadatare@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tianfei Zhang &lt;tianfei.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230328142455.481146-1-tianfei.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Adding a DFL (Device Feature List) device driver of ToD device for
Intel FPGA cards.

The Intel FPGA Time of Day(ToD) IP within the FPGA DFL bus is exposed
as PTP Hardware clock(PHC) device to the Linux PTP stack to synchronize
the system clock to its ToD information using phc2sys utility of the
Linux PTP stack. The DFL is a hardware List within FPGA, which defines
a linked list of feature headers within the device MMIO space to provide
an extensible way of adding subdevice features.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Khadatare &lt;raghavendrax.anand.khadatare@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tianfei Zhang &lt;tianfei.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230328142455.481146-1-tianfei.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptp: ocp: Select CRC16 in the Kconfig.</title>
<updated>2022-07-28T01:11:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Lemon</name>
<email>jonathan.lemon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-26T22:06:04+00:00</published>
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The crc16() function is used to check the firmware validity, but
the library was not explicitly selected.

Fixes: 3c3673bde50c ("ptp: ocp: Add firmware header checks")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vadim Fedorenko &lt;vadfed@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220726220604.1339972-1-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The crc16() function is used to check the firmware validity, but
the library was not explicitly selected.

Fixes: 3c3673bde50c ("ptp: ocp: Add firmware header checks")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vadim Fedorenko &lt;vadfed@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220726220604.1339972-1-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptp: ocp: add COMMON_CLK dependency</title>
<updated>2021-09-20T10:11:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-20T09:57:49+00:00</published>
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Without CONFIG_COMMON_CLK, this fails to link:

arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/ptp/ptp_ocp.o: in function `ptp_ocp_register_i2c':
ptp_ocp.c:(.text+0xcc0): undefined reference to `__clk_hw_register_fixed_rate'
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: ptp_ocp.c:(.text+0xcf4): undefined reference to `devm_clk_hw_register_clkdev'
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/ptp/ptp_ocp.o: in function `ptp_ocp_detach':
ptp_ocp.c:(.text+0x1c24): undefined reference to `clk_hw_unregister_fixed_rate'

Fixes: a7e1abad13f3 ("ptp: Add clock driver for the OpenCompute TimeCard.")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Without CONFIG_COMMON_CLK, this fails to link:

arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/ptp/ptp_ocp.o: in function `ptp_ocp_register_i2c':
ptp_ocp.c:(.text+0xcc0): undefined reference to `__clk_hw_register_fixed_rate'
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: ptp_ocp.c:(.text+0xcf4): undefined reference to `devm_clk_hw_register_clkdev'
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/ptp/ptp_ocp.o: in function `ptp_ocp_detach':
ptp_ocp.c:(.text+0x1c24): undefined reference to `clk_hw_unregister_fixed_rate'

Fixes: a7e1abad13f3 ("ptp: Add clock driver for the OpenCompute TimeCard.")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptp: ocp: Simplify Kconfig.</title>
<updated>2021-08-26T11:06:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Lemon</name>
<email>jonathan.lemon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-25T21:17:33+00:00</published>
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Remove the 'imply' statements, these apparently are not doing
what I expected.  Platform modules which are used by the driver
still need to be enabled in the overall config for them to be
used, but there isn't a hard dependency on them.

Use 'depend' for selectable modules which provide functions
used directly by the driver.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Remove the 'imply' statements, these apparently are not doing
what I expected.  Platform modules which are used by the driver
still need to be enabled in the overall config for them to be
used, but there isn't a hard dependency on them.

Use 'depend' for selectable modules which provide functions
used directly by the driver.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T01:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-20T01:09:18+00:00</published>
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drivers/ptp/Kconfig:
  55c8fca1dae1 ("ptp_pch: Restore dependency on PCI")
  e5f31552674e ("ethernet: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK dependencies")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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drivers/ptp/Kconfig:
  55c8fca1dae1 ("ptp_pch: Restore dependency on PCI")
  e5f31552674e ("ethernet: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK dependencies")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptp: ocp: Have Kconfig select NET_DEVLINK</title>
<updated>2021-08-17T00:18:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Lemon</name>
<email>jonathan.lemon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-16T22:13:36+00:00</published>
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NET doesn't imply NET_DEVLINK.  Select this separately, so that
random config combinations don't complain.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 773bda964921 ("ptp: ocp: Expose various resources on the timecard.")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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NET doesn't imply NET_DEVLINK.  Select this separately, so that
random config combinations don't complain.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 773bda964921 ("ptp: ocp: Expose various resources on the timecard.")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptp: ocp: don't allow on S390</title>
<updated>2021-08-16T10:13:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-13T20:30:26+00:00</published>
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Fix kconfig warning on arch/s390/:

WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for SERIAL_8250
  Depends on [n]: TTY [=y] &amp;&amp; HAS_IOMEM [=y] &amp;&amp; !S390 [=y]
  Selected by [m]:
  - PTP_1588_CLOCK_OCP [=m] &amp;&amp; PTP_1588_CLOCK [=m] &amp;&amp; HAS_IOMEM [=y] &amp;&amp; PCI [=y] &amp;&amp; SPI [=y] &amp;&amp; I2C [=m] &amp;&amp; MTD [=m]

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Fix kconfig warning on arch/s390/:

WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for SERIAL_8250
  Depends on [n]: TTY [=y] &amp;&amp; HAS_IOMEM [=y] &amp;&amp; !S390 [=y]
  Selected by [m]:
  - PTP_1588_CLOCK_OCP [=m] &amp;&amp; PTP_1588_CLOCK [=m] &amp;&amp; HAS_IOMEM [=y] &amp;&amp; PCI [=y] &amp;&amp; SPI [=y] &amp;&amp; I2C [=m] &amp;&amp; MTD [=m]

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptp_pch: Restore dependency on PCI</title>
<updated>2021-08-16T10:11:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-13T17:33:27+00:00</published>
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During the swap dependency on PCH_GBE to selection PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH
incidentally dropped the implicit dependency on the PCI. Restore it.

Fixes: 18d359ceb044 ("pch_gbe, ptp_pch: Fix the dependency direction between these drivers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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During the swap dependency on PCH_GBE to selection PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH
incidentally dropped the implicit dependency on the PCI. Restore it.

Fixes: 18d359ceb044 ("pch_gbe, ptp_pch: Fix the dependency direction between these drivers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethernet: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK dependencies</title>
<updated>2021-08-14T00:49:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-12T18:33:58+00:00</published>
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The 'imply' keyword does not do what most people think it does, it only
politely asks Kconfig to turn on another symbol, but does not prevent
it from being disabled manually or built as a loadable module when the
user is built-in. In the ICE driver, the latter now causes a link failure:

aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.o: in function `ice_eth_ioctl':
ice_main.c:(.text+0x13b0): undefined reference to `ice_ptp_get_ts_config'
ice_main.c:(.text+0x13b0): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against undefined symbol `ice_ptp_get_ts_config'
aarch64-linux-ld: ice_main.c:(.text+0x13bc): undefined reference to `ice_ptp_set_ts_config'
ice_main.c:(.text+0x13bc): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against undefined symbol `ice_ptp_set_ts_config'
aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.o: in function `ice_prepare_for_reset':
ice_main.c:(.text+0x31fc): undefined reference to `ice_ptp_release'
ice_main.c:(.text+0x31fc): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against undefined symbol `ice_ptp_release'
aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.o: in function `ice_rebuild':

This is a recurring problem in many drivers, and we have discussed
it several times befores, without reaching a consensus. I'm providing
a link to the previous email thread for reference, which discusses
some related problems.

To solve the dependency issue better than the 'imply' keyword, introduce a
separate Kconfig symbol "CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK_OPTIONAL" that any driver
can depend on if it is able to use PTP support when available, but works
fine without it. Whenever CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK=m, those drivers are
then prevented from being built-in, the same way as with a 'depends on
PTP_1588_CLOCK || !PTP_1588_CLOCK' dependency that does the same trick,
but that can be rather confusing when you first see it.

Since this should cover the dependencies correctly, the IS_REACHABLE()
hack in the header is no longer needed now, and can be turned back
into a normal IS_ENABLED() check. Any driver that gets the dependency
wrong will now cause a link time failure rather than being unable to use
PTP support when that is in a loadable module.

However, the two recently added ptp_get_vclocks_index() and
ptp_convert_timestamp() interfaces are only called from builtin code with
ethtool and socket timestamps, so keep the current behavior by stubbing
those out completely when PTP is in a loadable module. This should be
addressed properly in a follow-up.

As Richard suggested, we may want to actually turn PTP support into a
'bool' option later on, preventing it from being a loadable module
altogether, which would be one way to solve the problem with the ethtool
interface.

Fixes: 06c16d89d2cb ("ice: register 1588 PTP clock device object for E810 devices")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210804121318.337276-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8P3a06enZOf=XyZ+zcAwBczv41UuCTz+=0FMf2gBz1_cOnZQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8P3a3=eOxE-K25754+fB_-i_0BZzf9a9RfPTX3ppSwu9WZXw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210726084540.3282344-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;snelson@pensando.io&gt;
Acked-by: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812183509.1362782-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The 'imply' keyword does not do what most people think it does, it only
politely asks Kconfig to turn on another symbol, but does not prevent
it from being disabled manually or built as a loadable module when the
user is built-in. In the ICE driver, the latter now causes a link failure:

aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.o: in function `ice_eth_ioctl':
ice_main.c:(.text+0x13b0): undefined reference to `ice_ptp_get_ts_config'
ice_main.c:(.text+0x13b0): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against undefined symbol `ice_ptp_get_ts_config'
aarch64-linux-ld: ice_main.c:(.text+0x13bc): undefined reference to `ice_ptp_set_ts_config'
ice_main.c:(.text+0x13bc): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against undefined symbol `ice_ptp_set_ts_config'
aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.o: in function `ice_prepare_for_reset':
ice_main.c:(.text+0x31fc): undefined reference to `ice_ptp_release'
ice_main.c:(.text+0x31fc): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against undefined symbol `ice_ptp_release'
aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.o: in function `ice_rebuild':

This is a recurring problem in many drivers, and we have discussed
it several times befores, without reaching a consensus. I'm providing
a link to the previous email thread for reference, which discusses
some related problems.

To solve the dependency issue better than the 'imply' keyword, introduce a
separate Kconfig symbol "CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK_OPTIONAL" that any driver
can depend on if it is able to use PTP support when available, but works
fine without it. Whenever CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK=m, those drivers are
then prevented from being built-in, the same way as with a 'depends on
PTP_1588_CLOCK || !PTP_1588_CLOCK' dependency that does the same trick,
but that can be rather confusing when you first see it.

Since this should cover the dependencies correctly, the IS_REACHABLE()
hack in the header is no longer needed now, and can be turned back
into a normal IS_ENABLED() check. Any driver that gets the dependency
wrong will now cause a link time failure rather than being unable to use
PTP support when that is in a loadable module.

However, the two recently added ptp_get_vclocks_index() and
ptp_convert_timestamp() interfaces are only called from builtin code with
ethtool and socket timestamps, so keep the current behavior by stubbing
those out completely when PTP is in a loadable module. This should be
addressed properly in a follow-up.

As Richard suggested, we may want to actually turn PTP support into a
'bool' option later on, preventing it from being a loadable module
altogether, which would be one way to solve the problem with the ethtool
interface.

Fixes: 06c16d89d2cb ("ice: register 1588 PTP clock device object for E810 devices")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210804121318.337276-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8P3a06enZOf=XyZ+zcAwBczv41UuCTz+=0FMf2gBz1_cOnZQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8P3a3=eOxE-K25754+fB_-i_0BZzf9a9RfPTX3ppSwu9WZXw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210726084540.3282344-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;snelson@pensando.io&gt;
Acked-by: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812183509.1362782-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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