netdev - Re: Request for -stable inclusion: time stamping fix for nfp

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Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 11:55:09 +0200
From:   Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request for -stable inclusion: time stamping fix for nfp

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 02:09:03PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 19:41:47 +0200
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:13:28AM +0900, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
> >> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:20:46 +0100
> >> 
> >> > Can you please queue commit 46f1c52e66db
> >> > ("nfp: TX time stamp packets before HW doorbell is rung") for -stable?
> >> > We got hit but this bug in the late summer. We run this fix internally
> >> > since a couple of months, but that'd be better to have it officially
> >> > backported so everyone can benefit of it.
> >> 
> >> Queued up.
> > 
> > I guess this one got lost somewhere as it doesn't appear in linux-4.9.y
> > (other trees aren't relevant).
> > If that's unintentional, than can you please re-queue
> > 46f1c52e66db ("nfp: TX time stamp packets before HW doorbell is rung")
> > to -stable?
> 
> I only submit patches to -stable for the two most recent active branches
> which right now consists of 4.16 and 4.14 as per www.kernel.org
> 
Sorry, I didn't know precisely which branches you were actually
handling. I'll remember that for next time.