From 4e0fc87a15c520876fed6341f58103eb84e4b8a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hedberg Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 10:16:54 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] doc: btsnoop: Clarify drop counts. --- doc/btsnoop.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/btsnoop.txt b/doc/btsnoop.txt index ed56b5a1f..5450efa84 100644 --- a/doc/btsnoop.txt +++ b/doc/btsnoop.txt @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ ext_hdr: 7 Other drops 1 byte Dropped other packets 8 32-bit timestamp 4 bytes Timestamp in 1/10th ms + The drops fields indicate the number of packets that the + implementation had to drop (e.g. due to lack of buffers) since + the last reported drop count. + The fields of the extended header must be sorted by increasing type. This is essential so that unknown types can be ignored and the parser can jump to processing the payload. -- 2.47.3