netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 09/13] net: ethernet: ti: cpts: clean up event list if event pool is empty

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:13:43 +0100
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@...com>,
        Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>,
        Wingman Kwok <w-kwok2@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v2 09/13] net: ethernet: ti: cpts: clean up event list
 if event pool is empty

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 05:03:33PM -0600, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> From: WingMan Kwok <w-kwok2@...com>
> 
> When a CPTS user does not exit gracefully by disabling cpts
> timestamping and leaving a joined multicast group, the system
> continues to receive and timestamps the ptp packets which eventually
> occupy all the event list entries.  When this happns, the added code
> tries to remove some list entries which are expired.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WingMan Kwok <w-kwok2@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>

This patch belongs earlier in the series, before the re-structuring.
It doesn't depend on the others, AFAICT.

Thanks,
Richard