From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] ptp: dynamic allocation of PHC char devices
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:48:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130412174802.GA6902@netboy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb5ff20a9968a810e6f827921e56fc8fc8fededf.1365764133.git.jbenc@redhat.com>
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:56:15PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> As network adapters supporting PTP are becoming more common, machines with
> many NICs suddenly have many PHCs, too. The current limit of eight /dev/ptp*
> char devices (and thus, 8 network interfaces with PHC) is insufficient. Let
> the ptp driver allocate the char devices dynamically.
>
> Tested with 28 PHCs, removing and re-adding some of them.
>
> Thanks to Ben Hutchings for advice leading to simpler and cleaner patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 10:56 [PATCH v3 net-next] ptp: dynamic allocation of PHC char devices Jiri Benc
2013-04-12 17:48 ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2013-04-12 22:23 ` David Miller
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