net: support time stamping in phy devices.

This patch adds a new networking option to allow hardware time stamps
from PHY devices. When enabled, likely candidates among incoming and
outgoing network packets are offered to the PHY driver for possible
time stamping. When accepted by the PHY driver, incoming packets are
deferred for later delivery by the driver.

The patch also adds phylib driver methods for the SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl
and callbacks for transmit and receive time stamping. Drivers may
optionally implement these functions.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 0d68b40fc0e6..b3250944cde9 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ config NETWORK_SECMARK
           to nfmark, but designated for security purposes.
           If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
 
+config NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING
+        bool "Timestamping in PHY devices"
+        depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+        help
+          This allows timestamping of network packets by PHYs with
+          hardware timestamping capabilities. This option adds some
+          overhead in the transmit and receive paths.
+
+          If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
+
 menuconfig NETFILTER
         bool "Network packet filtering framework (Netfilter)"
         ---help---