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From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] net: per skb control messages
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:35:52 +0300
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On Friday 25 July 2008, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> How hard would it be to add PLL support to use same kind of timestamp.
> Enlist the help of some NTP/clock experts to help.

Let me see if I got this correctly: modify the hardware so that the CPU is 
synchronized with the NIC timestamping unit. If so, I will agree that this is 
the cleanest possible solution. 

Thanks,
tavi