Subject: Re: [RFC] support for IEEE 1588

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:24:20 +0200

Rick Jones <[email-masked]> 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