On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:00:18PM +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> > The PTP subsystem only allows one pin to be mapped to one channel for 
> > periodic
> > outputs.  Why does the ptp subsystem force only allowing one pin index to 
> > one a
> > periodic output channel?  It seems like a common use case to want to assign 
> > a
> > single periodic output to multiple pins.

...

> Hardware that I'm aware of has dedicated function <-> pin mapping, so each 
> PTP function output can only be assigned to a single pin at a time..

Right, and getting back to original question, if you want multiple
periodic outputs at the same time, you simply provide multiple
channels in the driver and then assign each pin its own channel.

Would that solve your problem, Alex?

Thanks,
Richard

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