netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] Enable tx timestamping on loopback and dummy

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Message-Id: <20170313.121504.1530815997705662155.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ezegomez@...zon.com
Cc:     richardcochran@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Enable tx timestamping on loopback and dummy

From: Ezequiel Lara Gomez <ezegomez@...zon.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:16:10 +0000

> 
> From aef15784aecbf6cb08d181eca6186fe7d2261771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ezequiel Lara Gomez <ezegomez@...zon.com>
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:06:54 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH v4] Enable tx timestamping on loopback and dummy
> 
> This enables developing code that uses SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE
> by using local addresses (without needing to send packets outside),
> as well as enabling unit and functional testing of TX timestamping code
> without needing hardware support or network access.
> 
> It also fulfills the expectation of software network devices supporting
> software-based timestamping.
> 
> Tested on qemu using txtimestamping.c from the kernel selftests, and
> ethtool -T.

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