From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ivan@ru.ibm.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ben@decadent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/ibm/emac: bump version numbers for correct work with ethtool
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 22:23:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150928.222332.150002799807100193.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150925115227.636d658d@fr-ThinkPad-W520>
From: Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@ru.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:52:27 +0400
> The size of the MAC register dump used to be the size specified by the
> reg property in the device tree. Userland has no good way of finding
> out that size, and it was not specified consistently for each MAC type,
> so ethtool would end up printing junk at the end of the register dump
> if the device tree didn't match the size it assumed.
>
> Using the new version numbers indicates unambiguously that the size of
> the MAC register dump is dependent only on the MAC type.
>
> Fixes: 5369c71f7ca2 ("net/ibm/emac: fix size of emac dump memory areas")
>
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@ru.ibm.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
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2015-09-25 7:52 [PATCH v2] net/ibm/emac: bump version numbers for correct work with ethtool Ivan Mikhaylov
2015-09-29 5:23 ` David Miller [this message]
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