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Commit 73409f3b authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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net: Add some clarification to skb_tx_timestamp() comment. 



We've seen so many instances of people invoking skb_tx_timestamp()
after the device already has been given the packet, that it's worth
being a little bit more verbose and explicit in this comment.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 37ec274e

include/linux/skbuff.h

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@@ -2531,6 +2531,10 @@ static inline void sw_tx_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb) 
 * Ethernet MAC Drivers should call this function in their hard_xmit()

 * function immediately before giving the sk_buff to the MAC hardware.

 *

 * Specifically, one should make absolutely sure that this function is

 * called before TX completion of this packet can trigger.  Otherwise

 * the packet could potentially already be freed.

 *

 * @skb: A socket buffer.

 */

static inline void skb_tx_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)