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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 5/5] net-timestamp: tx timestamping default
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:26:14 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 08:49:00PM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> Just so I understand: ptp has no use for the sw tstamps
> that would be generated with this flag, but is otherwise
> okay with enabling counters to order tx timestamps
> (OPT_ID) and disabling payload (OPT_TSONLY)?

Yes.

> In the documentation, I would like to strongly suggest all
> processes to enable these, even in absence of this default.
> because that is more robust wrt the sysctl (if merged).

Sounds good.

Thanks,
Richard