igc_ptp_tx_hwtstamp(9)

💅 igc_ptp_tx_hwtstamp 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual page for igc_ptp_tx_hwtstamp — yes that's a whole mouthful, but she's iconic and she knows it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

igc_ptp_tx_hwtstamp — a utility function which checks for TX time stamp. that's it, that's her job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void igc_ptp_tx_hwtstamp (struct igc_adapter *adapter );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• adapter — the board private structure 🫶 like, this is the whole context she's working with, no cap.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what she does is: she checks against the ready mask to see which of the timestamp register sets are actually ready to be retrieved 👀 then she retrieves that one and notifies the rest of the stack. literally that simple, and yet so important. she ate. 🔥

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💜 CONTEXT 💜

expects adapter->ptp_tx_lock to be held by the caller — so like, hold the lock before you call her, bestie, fr fr 🙈 no lock, no vibes.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ptp.c

the whole friend group 💖:

• igc_ptp_systim_to_hwtstamp(9)
• igc_ptp_rx_pktstamp(9)
• igc_ptp_clear_xsk_tx_tstamp_queue(9)
• igc_ptp_set_timestamp_mode(9)
• igc_ptp_tx_tstamp_event(9)
• igc_ptp_hwtstamp_set(9)
• igc_ptp_hwtstamp_get(9)
• igc_ptp_init(9)
• igc_ptp_suspend(9)
• igc_ptp_stop(9)
• igc_ptp_reset(9)

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc, dated October 2026 — slay, go timestamp some packets responsibly, ily 🧚💜