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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] net: per skb control messages
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From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:12:03 +0300

> On Friday 25 July 2008, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > We have a timestamp in the SKB already, why don't you simply override
> > it when your feature is enable and set a single flag bit that
> > indicates you used a HW timestamp to set that timestamp?
> 
> I thought of something similar, but I am not sure if I can to so, as it seems 
> that the skb->tstamp requires current gettimeofday semantics at least in 
> netfilter's ipt_time module.

Can your timestamp format at least be converted to
gettimeofday() format?

I thought we had a ton of accessor functions that code uses to access
the timestamp?  You should be able to do your translation in those
routines.