From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] support for IEEE 1588
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:24:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763rlsxi3.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486D6B87.9030409@hp.com> (Rick Jones's message of "Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:15:03 -0700")
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
>
> I've not had a good emily litella moment in at least a week, so I'll
> ask - if the clock in the hardware generating the timestamp and the
> clock in the host aren't synchronized in _some_ way, what benefit is
> there to putting the hardware's timestamp in there?
The point is to synchronize them using a high quality data stamp.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-04 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 22:47 [RFC] support for IEEE 1588 Octavian Purdila
2008-07-03 23:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-03 23:40 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-04 0:15 ` Rick Jones
2008-07-04 0:42 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-04 11:24 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-04 13:37 ` Patrick Ohly
2008-07-05 0:21 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-07 12:34 ` Patrick Ohly
2008-07-09 15:31 ` Lennart Sorensen
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