netdev - RE: [PATCH] gianfar: fix the last transmit buffer descriptor

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2016 11:02:05 +0000
From:	Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>
To:	Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@....com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] gianfar: fix the last transmit buffer descriptor

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Yangbo Lu [mailto:yangbo.lu@....com]
>Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2016 12:36 PM
>To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
>Cc: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@...escale.com>; Yangbo Lu
><yangbo.lu@....com>
>Subject: [PATCH] gianfar: fix the last transmit buffer descriptor
>
>When the transmit hardware timestamping is enabled, an additional
>TxBD would be added and would be set as the last TxBD with TXBD_LAST
>and TXBD_INTERRUPT. However this has been broken by a patch recently.
>This made the software couldn't get transmit hardware timestamps and
>resulted in call trace. So, this patch is to fix this issue.
>
>Fixes: 48963b4492e9 ("gianfar: Remove redundant ops for do_tstamp
>       from xmit()")
Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>