From: Richard Cochran <richardcoch...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:25:45 +0100
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:22:28AM +0100, Manfred Rudigier wrote: >> PHY status frames are not reliable, the PHY may not be able to send them >> during heavy receive traffic. This overflow condition is signaled by the >> PHY in the next status frame, but the driver did not make use of it. >> Instead it always reported wrong tx timestamps to user space after an >> overflow happened because it assigned newly received tx timestamps to old >> packets in the queue. >> >> This commit fixes this issue by clearing the tx timestamp queue every time >> an overflow happens, so that no timestamps are delivered for overflow >> packets. This way time stamping will continue correctly after an overflow. > > Hi Manfred, > > Thanks for finding and fixing this bug. > > Dave, this patch should also go into stable. > > Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcoch...@gmail.com> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks everyone.
