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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Cc: Stephane Grosjean <s.grosjean@peak-system.com>,
	"linux-can@vger.kernel.org" <linux-can@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] peak_usb: fix hwtstamp assignment
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:35:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AE000E.4040208@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AD4B1F.4070806@hartkopp.net>

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On 11/21/2012 10:43 PM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> The skb->tstamp is set to the hardware timestamp when available in the USB
> urb message. This leads to user visible timestamps which contain the 'uptime'
> of the USB adapter - and not the usual system generated timestamp.
> 
> Fix this wrong assignment by applying the available hardware timestamp to the
> skb_shared_hwtstamps data structure - which is intended for this purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
> 
> ---
> 
> Hello Marc, hello Stephane,
> 
> i think we would generally need to support a hwtstamp_ioctl() for CAN
> interfaces which are controlled with a struct hwtstamp_config in the future.
> 
> For now this patch fixes the current issue much better than a simple removal
> of the skb->tstamp assignment.

Sure, making it work correctly is better than removing the broken stuff.
But removing the broken code is better than having wrong code in the driver.

> I'm currently on a business trip and i accidentally missed to take two PEAK
> USB interfaces with me to test this patch. It's compile tested ...

:)

> So let's wait for an Acked-by from Stephane.

yep,
Marc
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-21 21:43 [PATCH] peak_usb: fix hwtstamp assignment Oliver Hartkopp
2012-11-22 10:35 ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]

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