This implements the simultaneous read of the isochronous cycle timer and
the system clock (in usecs). This allows to express the exact receive
time of an ISO packet as a system time with microsecond accuracy.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7773
The counterpart patch for libraw1394 can be found at
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.devel/8934
Patch update (Stefan R.): Disable preemption and local interrupts.
Prevent integer overflow. Add paranoid error checks and kerneldoc to
hpsb_read_cycle_timer. Move it to other ieee1394_core high-level API
functions. Change comments. Adjust whitespace. Rename struct
_raw1394_cycle_timer.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@joow.be>
Acked-by: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>
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