Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:29:20 +0200 | From | Köry Maincent <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next v5 08/16] net: ethtool: Add a command to expose current time stamping layer |
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:50:01 -0700 Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:41:34PM +0200, Köry Maincent wrote: > > > Still I am wondering why hardware timestamping capabilities can be enabled > > without phc. > > There is hardware that simply provides time values on frames from a > free running clock, and that clock cannot be read, set, or adjusted. > > So the time stamps only relate to other time stamps from the same > device. That might be used for performance analysis.
Ok, thanks you for the information.
Köry
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