Re: [RFC] support for IEEE 1588

[Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx> 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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