Re: [PATCH] firewire: adopt read cycle timer ABI from raw1394

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Pieter, do applications like yours need the cycle counter only for a few
predetermined packets or for each and every packet?
We need it for every packet for two reasons:
1) it's the only way to determine how many packets were dropped when
packet drops are flagged in the callback

Your application should know what the timestamp should be for each iso
receive callback and if you see a larger value than expected you can
use that to calculate how many cycles were lost.

That might not work if the device is synchronized to SPDIF for example. In this case it is possible (and very likely) that the two clock domains (SPDIF and the firewire bus) drift. The time difference between two timestamps do not have to be the same all the time. So it can be hard (possible?) to predict the next timestamp correctly.

daniel
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