idpf_get_ts_stats(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 idpf_get_ts_stats — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and the function we're stanning today is idpf_get_ts_stats(9). strap in 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

idpf_get_ts_stats — literally just collecting HW tstamping statistics 🕰️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void idpf_get_ts_stats (struct net_device *netdev , struct
       ethtool_ts_stats *ts_stats );

no cap, that's the whole signature. it returns void, so it's giving "i do the work and i don't need applause" energy 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • netdev — the network interface device structure, aka the whole personality of the NIC you're poking at 🫶
  • ts_stats — the HW timestamping stats structure, this is where all the juicy numbers get dropped 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does it do? it collects HW timestamping statistics, periodt. and the receipts it gathers are:

  • packets that got successfully timestamped ⭐
  • packets that got discarded because of illegal values 💀
  • packets that got flushed during releasing PTP 🌊
  • packets that got skipped due to a lack of the free index 🙈

like, it's a whole vibe check on your hardware timestamping, and every counter has main character energy 🔥

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ethtool.c — go say hi 👋

and here's the whole friend group, fr fr:

and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 this one's from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf, dated October 2026 — screenshot it, cite it, slay it 💅✨

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