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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 3/4] net/mlx5e: Add HW timestamping (TS)
 support
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:01:54 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Ok, but what will happen if somehow tstamp->overflow_period is zero ?
> the work will run too rapidly.
> don't we need to have protection against such case.

Why not return an error in that case?

Thanks,
Richard