Re: [net PATCH] octeontx2-af: Enable hardware timestamping for VFs

From: Sai Krishna Gajula
Date: Wed Oct 11 2023 - 01:43:35 EST



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> Subject: Re: [net PATCH] octeontx2-af: Enable hardware timestamping
> for VFs
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:46:21 +0530 Sai Krishna wrote:
> > Subject: [net PATCH] octeontx2-af: Enable hardware timestamping for
> > VFs
> > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:46:21 +0530
> > X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1
> >
> > Currently for VFs, mailbox returns error when hardware timestamping
> > enable is requested. This patch fixes this issue.
> >
> > Fixes: 421572175ba5 ("octeontx2-af: Support to enable/disable HW
> > timestamping")
>
> If it never worked for VFs but worked for PFs - it's not really a fix.
> New functionality enablement is -next material, even if the fact that it was
> previously disable was unintentional.

Ack, will submit the patch to net-next.

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