ixgbe_ptp_tx_hwtstamp(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_ptp_tx_hwtstamp(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this little cutie lives in the kernel API docs and it's genuinely such a slay

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_ptp_tx_hwtstamp — the utility function that checks for a TX time stamp 🎀

like, that's literally her whole job. she checks. that's it. icon behavior.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ixgbe_ptp_tx_hwtstamp (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

no cap, that's the whole signature. void return, one arg, she's lowkey minimalist about it 🦋

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • adapter — the private adapter struct 💖 like yes bestie, the private one, the struct ixgbe_adapter we all know and love

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the vibe check: if the timestamp is valid, we convert it into the timecounter ns value ✨ and then we store that result into the shhwtstamps structure — and that structure is what gets passed up the network stack 🌈

so like, it goes up the stack. upward. to the network stack. that's the whole flow, iykyk 💅

ngl the whole function is conditional on the timestamp being valid, so if it's not valid... she's just not doing the conversion. that's the deal fr fr

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the kernel file she calls home 🏠:

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c

and literally her entire friend group, all present and accounted for (not me listing all of them, but also yes me listing all of them 💀):

and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and timestamp your TX packets 💜

source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's truncated in the original, that's not me being lazy, that's just how she came to us 🙈) — dated October 2026, manifesting that energy 🍓✨ mwah 💋

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