netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 net-next] liquidio: pass date and time info to NIC firmware

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Message-Id: <20171024.185732.249303077547012231.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2017 18:57:32 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     felix.manlunas@...ium.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, raghu.vatsavayi@...ium.com,
        derek.chickles@...ium.com, satananda.burla@...ium.com,
        veerasenareddy.burru@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 net-next] liquidio: pass date and time info to NIC
 firmware

From: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:33:25 -0700

> From: Veerasenareddy Burru <veerasenareddy.burru@...ium.com>
> 
> Pass date and time information to NIC at the time of loading
> firmware and periodically update the host time to NIC firmware.
> This is to make NIC firmware use the same time reference as Host,
> so that it is easy to correlate logs from firmware and host for debugging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Veerasenareddy Burru <veerasenareddy.burru@...ium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>

Applied.