[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ixgbe: PTP get_ts_info missing software support" has been added to staging queue

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Wed Dec 5 22:32:14 UTC 2012


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ixgbe: PTP get_ts_info missing software support

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From cd8ad2384fdcb9ebae01a531aafd395edcfc2e46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:30:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ixgbe: PTP get_ts_info missing software support
X-Extended-Stable: 3.5

commit 50f8d35de8ba4af311ea1176c534e8b73bb198e5 upstream.

This patch corrects the ethtool get_ts_info functon which did not state that
software timestamping was supported, even though it is.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
index 9b20170..79eb257 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
@@ -2706,6 +2706,9 @@ static int ixgbe_get_ts_info(struct net_device *dev,
 	case ixgbe_mac_X540:
 	case ixgbe_mac_82599EB:
 		info->so_timestamping =
+			SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE |
+			SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE |
+			SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE |
 			SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE |
 			SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_HARDWARE |
 			SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE;
--
1.7.9.5





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