From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Cochran Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 7/8] net-timestamp: expand documentation Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 22:14:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20140705201429.GD3869@localhost.localdomain> References: <1404416380-3545-1-git-send-email-willemb@google.com> <1404416380-3545-8-git-send-email-willemb@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, richardcochran@gomail.com, stephen@networkplumber.org To: Willem de Bruijn Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:54650 "EHLO mail-wi0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932320AbaGEUOv (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2014 16:14:51 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id bs8so5015685wib.3 for ; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 13:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1404416380-3545-8-git-send-email-willemb@google.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 03:39:39PM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote: > -hwtimetrans is the hardware time stamp transformed so that it > +SCM_TSTAMP_HWRAW is the hardware time stamp transformed so that it > corresponds as good as possible to system time. This correlation is > not perfect; as a consequence, sorting packets received via different > NICs by their hwtimetrans may differ from the order in which they were While we are at it, I would like to replace this text with something like "legacy field, always zero." Thanks, Richard