net/ethtool/ts.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

net/ethtool/ts.h

Extension

.h

Size

594 bytes

Lines

21

Domain

Networking Core

Bucket

Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy

Inferred role

Networking Core: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Networking stack implementation surface: socket APIs, protocol dispatch, packet flow, routing, filtering, and network namespaces.

• Networking stack implementation surface: socket APIs, protocol dispatch, packet flow, routing, filtering, and network namespaces.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• netlink.h

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

#ifndef _NET_ETHTOOL_TS_H
#define _NET_ETHTOOL_TS_H

#include "netlink.h"

static const struct nla_policy
ethnl_ts_hwtst_prov_policy[ETHTOOL_A_TS_HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_MAX + 1] = {
	[ETHTOOL_A_TS_HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_INDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
	[ETHTOOL_A_TS_HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_QUALIFIER] =
		NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U32, HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_QUALIFIER_CNT - 1)
};

int ts_parse_hwtst_provider(const struct nlattr *nest,
			    struct hwtstamp_provider_desc *hwprov_desc,
			    struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
			    bool *mod);

#endif /* _NET_ETHTOOL_TS_H */

Annotation

• Immediate include surface: `netlink.h`.
• Atlas domain: Networking Core / Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.