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ptp: clarify the clock_name sysfs attribute 

There has been some confusion among PHC driver authors about the
intended purpose of the clock_name attribute. This patch expands the
documation in order to clarify how the clock_name field should be
understood.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Richard Cochran 2012-09-22 07:02:04 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp
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@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ Date: September 2010
Contact: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Description:
This file contains the name of the PTP hardware clock
as a human readable string.
as a human readable string. The purpose of this
attribute is to provide the user with a "friendly
name" and to help distinguish PHY based devices from
MAC based ones. The string does not necessarily have
to be any kind of unique id.
What: /sys/class/ptp/ptpN/max_adjustment
Date: September 2010

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include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h
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@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ struct ptp_clock_request {
* struct ptp_clock_info - decribes a PTP hardware clock
*
* @owner: The clock driver should set to THIS_MODULE.
* @name: A short name to identify the clock.
* @name: A short "friendly name" to identify the clock and to
* help distinguish PHY based devices from MAC based ones.
* The string is not meant to be a unique id.
* @max_adj: The maximum possible frequency adjustment, in parts per billon.
* @n_alarm: The number of programmable alarms.
* @n_ext_ts: The number of external time stamp channels.