netdev - Re: [net-next 0/5][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2014-07-16

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Message-Id: <20140716.235453.572559572142800647.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/5][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
 2014-07-16

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:35:29 -0700

> This series contains updates to i40e only.
> 
> Neerav adds support to get the port MAC address from firmware and adds
> support to the ndo_get_phys_port_id() callback to provide port specific
> unique ids to the netdev layer.
> 
> Jakub Kicinski provides 2 fixes, first fixes i40e to never generate a software
> time stamp if the hardware time stamp is provided.  Second fixes a race
> condition on queueing skb for hardware time by using a simple bit lock to
> avoid race conditions and leaking skbs when multiple transmit rings try
> to claim time stamping.
> 
> Paul does some general cleanup of the driver to remove unneeded spaces,
> comments that are no longer valid, and break that will never get touched.
> 
> Jacob Keller adds a verbose warning message when the incorrect PF attempts
> to control timestamping for a port to which it was not assigned.  The primary
> intent of this message is to help debugging the reason why the SIOCSHWSTAMP
> ioctl has failed and to help narrow the cause of the issue.
> 
> The following are changes since commit a84bc2a9013fb123deeca7283480955d021503fb:
>   drivers: net: cpsw: disable coalesce when rx_coalesce_usecs is zero
> and are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next master

Pulled, great and informative cover letter as always Jeff, thanks.
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