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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Manfred.Rudigier@omicron.at
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sandeep.kumar@freescale.com,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/4] gianfar: Added stub support for SIOCSHWTSTAMP
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:26:40 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100407.032640.172296134.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95DC1AA8EC908B48939B72CF375AA5E311A9F4DF@alice.at.omicron.at>

From: Manfred Rudigier <Manfred.Rudigier@omicron.at>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:46:08 +0200

> This ioctl command is required for enabling hardware time stamping support
> for network packets, see Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt. At the
> moment nothing will be done for all requests that enable time stamping and
> thus ERANGE will be returned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manfred Rudigier <manfred.rudigier@omicron.at>

This is completely pointless.

Something sane should happen so that every driver doesn't
need to add this stub code just to return -ERANGE.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07  9:46 [RFC PATCH net-next 1/4] gianfar: Added stub support for SIOCSHWTSTAMP Manfred Rudigier
2010-04-07 10:26 ` David Miller [this message]

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