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2025-07-01	time/timecounter: Fix the lie that struct cyclecounter is const	Greg Kroah-Hartman
	In both the read callback for struct cyclecounter, and in struct timecounter, struct cyclecounter is declared as a const pointer. Unfortunatly, a number of users of this pointer treat it as a non-const pointer as it is burried in a larger structure that is heavily modified by the callback function when accessed. This lie had been hidden by the fact that container_of() "casts away" a const attribute of a pointer without any compiler warning happening at all. Fix this all up by removing the const attribute in the needed places so that everyone can see that the structure really isn't const, but can, and is, modified by the users of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025070124-backyard-hurt-783a@gregkh
2023-08-09	net: ptp: create a mock-up PTP Hardware Clock driver	Vladimir Oltean
	There are several cases where virtual net devices may benefit from having a PTP clock, and these have to do with testing. I can see at least netdevsim and veth as potential users of a common mock-up PTP hardware clock driver. The proposed idea is to create an object which emulates PTP clock operations on top of the unadjustable CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW plus a software-controlled time domain via a timecounter/cyclecounter and then link that PHC to the netdevsim device. The driver is fully functional for its intended purpose, and it successfully passes the PTP selftests. $ cd tools/testing/selftests/ptp/ $ ./phc.sh /dev/ptp2 TEST: settime [ OK ] TEST: adjtime [ OK ] TEST: adjfreq [ OK ] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807193324.4128292-7-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>