Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] net: support for hardware timestamping
From: Ingo Oeser <hidden>
Date: 2008-07-30 09:34:59
From: Ingo Oeser <hidden>
Date: 2008-07-30 09:34:59
Hi Patrick, Patrick Ohly schrieb:
Perhaps the parameter of the new SO_TXTIMESTAMP can be a multi-value? 0 = no TX time stamps, 1 = TX time stamp in hardware if possible with software as fallback, 2 = only hardware TX time stamps. Either that, or use the same new socket flag as for RX time stamps.
Perhaps we can make it a bitmask (please choose a good prefix instead of XXX):
enum {
XXX_SOFTWARE_TX_TIMESTAMP = (1 << 0),
XXX_SOFTWARE_RX_TIMESTAMP = (1 << 1),
XXX_DRIVER_TX_TIMESTAMP = (1 << 2),
XXX_DRIVER_RX_TIMESTAMP = (1 << 3),
};
That way we can express everything required so far and have some bits left
to define precision, system time correlation and more.
Best Regards
Ingo Oeser