20 Oct, 2011

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  • This patch adds a sanity check on the values provided by user space for
    the hardware time stamping configuration. If the values lie outside of
    the absolute limits, then the ioctl request will be denied.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Cochran
     

27 Sep, 2011

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16 Feb, 2009

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  • User space can request hardware and/or software time stamping.
    Reporting of the result(s) via a new control message is enabled
    separately for each field in the message because some of the
    fields may require additional computation and thus cause overhead.
    User space can tell the different kinds of time stamps apart
    and choose what suits its needs.

    When a TX timestamp operation is requested, the TX skb will be cloned
    and the clone will be time stamped (in hardware or software) and added
    to the socket error queue of the skb, if the skb has a socket
    associated with it.

    The actual TX timestamp will reach userspace as a RX timestamp on the
    cloned packet. If timestamping is requested and no timestamping is
    done in the device driver (potentially this may use hardware
    timestamping), it will be done in software after the device's
    start_hard_xmit routine.

    Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Patrick Ohly