From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ikofler@edu.uni-klu.ac.at
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems obtaining software TX timestamps
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:24:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100908.142401.233712108.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C87FE60.7090209@edu.uni-klu.ac.at>
From: Ingo Kofler <ikofler@edu.uni-klu.ac.at>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:21:36 +0200
> Ok, for hardware timestamps it seems logically for me that the driver
> has to support this. But what about the software timestamps - do they
> also require support from the driver? Is there no generic
> implementation in the networking stack?
Each and every driver must add the hook because it must be inside of
the driver's transmit function due to packet lifetime issues etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-08 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 12:11 Problems obtaining software TX timestamps Ingo Kofler
2010-09-08 15:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-08 21:21 ` Ingo Kofler
2010-09-08 21:24 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-09 6:35 ` Richard Cochran
2010-09-09 8:26 ` Ingo Kofler
2010-09-09 13:57 ` Richard Cochran
2010-09-09 14:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-09 14:31 ` Loke, Chetan
2010-09-09 17:32 ` Richard Cochran
2010-09-09 18:58 ` Eric Dumazet
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