linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 net] net: fec: fix hardware time stamping by external devices

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Message-ID: <87blkf88g0.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:18:55 +0300
From:   Sergey Organov <sorganov@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net] net: fec: fix hardware time stamping by external
 devices

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> writes:

> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:38:13 +0300 Sergey Organov wrote:
>> > Applied, and added to the stable queue, thanks!  
>> 
>> Thanks, and I've also got a no-brainer patch that lets this bug fix
>> compile as-is with older kernels, where there were no phy_has_hwtstamp()
>> function. Dunno how to properly handle this. Here is the patch (on
>> top of v4.9.146), just in case:
>
> I see, I'll only add it to 5.7. By default we backport net fixes to
> the two most recent releases, anyway. Could you send a patch that will 
> work on 4.4 or 4.9 - 5.4 to Greg yourself once this hits Linus's tree
> in a week or two?

Sure. Hopefully I get it right that I'll need to send it to Greg as a
backport of this one to older kernel trees.

Thanks,
-- Sergey