netdev - Re: [PATCH] Enable tx timestamping on loopback and dummy

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Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:39:03 +0000
From:   Ezequiel Lara Gomez <ezegomez@...zon.com>
To:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable tx timestamping on loopback and dummy

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:30:00PM +0100, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:17:30AM +0100, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> > in fact you're doing three different things here:
> > 
> > 1. introduce tx timestamping
> > 2. silently change an include: <asm/io.h> -> <linux/io.h>
> > 3. fix some whitespace and empty line issues
> > 
> > You'd better provide one patch for 1 & 2 and explain why 2 is needed.
> 
> And while you are at it, explain why #1 is needed.

Certainly - 2 (and 3) come from checkpatch.pl suggestions 
(I'm mostly following through https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch ), 
so as suggested I've broken them into a separate patch, being
styling related only (at least according to that script output).

The intent behind 1 is helping developing code that does TX timestamping
- I lost a good chunk of time toying with it until I realised 127.0.0.1
could not do TX timestamping because lo did not implement it.

>
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
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