From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willem de Bruijn Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 7/8] net-timestamp: expand documentation Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:40:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1404416380-3545-1-git-send-email-willemb@google.com> <1404416380-3545-8-git-send-email-willemb@google.com> <20140705201429.GD3869@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Eric Dumazet , Stephen Hemminger To: Richard Cochran Return-path: Received: from mail-qg0-f53.google.com ([209.85.192.53]:56100 "EHLO mail-qg0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752028AbaGGPkq (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:40:46 -0400 Received: by mail-qg0-f53.google.com with SMTP id i50so3832170qgf.40 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:40:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140705201429.GD3869@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 03:39:39PM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote: > >> -hwtimetrans is the hardware time stamp transformed so that it >> +SCM_TSTAMP_HWRAW is the hardware time stamp transformed so that it >> corresponds as good as possible to system time. This correlation is >> not perfect; as a consequence, sorting packets received via different >> NICs by their hwtimetrans may differ from the order in which they were > > While we are at it, I would like to replace this text with something > like "legacy field, always zero." Judging from the octeon code, it may be non-zero. Perhaps "Deprecated field. It is always zero on all but one platform and not supported for new platform development. Applications should not use this field." > > Thanks, > Richard >