Re: [PATCH 8/8] net: e1000e: Adds hardware supported cross timestamp on e1000e nic

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 20:21 -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> From: "Christopher S. Hall" <christopher.s.hall@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Modern Intel systems supports cross timestamping of the network
> device
> clock and Always Running Timer (ART) in hardware. This allows the
> device time and system time to be precisely correlated. The timestamp
> pair is returned through e1000e_phc_get_syncdevicetime() used by
> get_system_device_crosststamp(). The hardware cross-timestamp result
> is made available to applications through the PTP_SYS_OFFSET_PRECISE
> ioctl which calls e1000e_phc_getcrosststamp().
> 
> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: kevin.b.stanton@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kevin.j.clarke@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: hpa@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@xxxxxxxxx>
> [jstultz: Reworked to use new interface, commit message tweaks]
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âdrivers/net/ethernet/intel/KconfigÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ |Â 9 +++
> Âdrivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h |Â 5 ++
> Âdrivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.cÂÂÂÂ | 85
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Âdrivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/regs.hÂÂÂ |Â 4 ++
> Â4 files changed, 103 insertions(+)

Since you are making changes to patch 6's title, then you should fix
this patch title as well, it should be:

[PATCH 8/8] e1000e: Adds hardware supported...

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