netdev - Re: [RFC] support for IEEE 1588

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Message-ID: <8763rlsxi3.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:24:20 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] support for IEEE 1588

Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> writes:
>
> I've not had a good emily litella moment in at least a week, so I'll
> ask - if the clock in the hardware generating the timestamp and the
> clock in the host aren't synchronized in _some_ way, what benefit is
> there to putting the hardware's timestamp in there?

The point is to synchronize them using a high quality data stamp.

-Andi
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