Re: [PATCH] Fix e1000e with Intel 82572EI that has no hardware timestamp support

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014, at 11:30, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 8/6/2014 6:27 PM, Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5) wrote:
> 
> > With the Intel 82527EI (driver: e1000e) there is an issue when running
> > the ptpd2 program, that leads to a kernel oops.
> > The reason is here that in e1000_xmit_frame() a work queue will be
> > scheduled that has not been initialized in this case.
> > The work queue "tx_hwstamp_work" will only be initialized if
> > adapter->flags & FLAG_HAS_HW_TIMESTAMP set.
> > This check is missing in e1000_xmit_frame().
> 
> > The following patch adds the missing check.
> 
>     OK, but this time you forgot your sign-off. :-)

Also, shouldn't the added test be inside the unlikely() ?

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  Henrique Holschuh
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