Re: [PATCH] igb: add a method to get the nic hw time stampingpolicy

[Richard Cochran]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:02:19PM +0800, Dong Zhu wrote:
> 
> Currently kernel only support setting the hw time stamping policy
> through ioctl,now add a method to check which packets(Outgoing and
> Incoming) are time stamped by nic.

I don't really see a use case here. Applications needing time stamping
should just set the policy that they need.

>  struct hwtstamp_config {
> +	int rw;

Also, you can't just go adding fields to an ioctl.

>  	int flags;
>  	int tx_type;
>  	int rx_filter;
> -- 

Thanks,
Richard
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