Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue

Jeff Kirsher says:

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Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-07-17

This series contains updates to igb, ixgbe, ixgbevf, i40e, bnx2x,
freescale, siena and dp83640.

Jacob provides several patches to clarify the intended way to implement
both SIOCSHWTSTAMP and ethtool's get_ts_info().  It is okay to support
the specific filters in SIOCSHWTSTAMP by upscaling them to the generic
filters.

Alex Duyck provides a igb patch to pull the time stamp from the fragment
before it gets added to the skb, to avoid a possible issue in which the
fragment can possibly be less than IGB_RX_HDR_LEN due to the time stamp
being pulled after the copybreak check.  Also provides a ixgbevf patch to
fold the ixgbevf_pull_tail() call into ixgbevf_add_rx_frag(), which gives
the advantage that the fragment does not have to be modified after it is
added to the skb.

Fan provides patches for ixgbe/ixgbevf to set the receive hash type
based on receive descriptor RSS type.

Todd provides a fix for igb where on check for link on any media other
than copper was not being detected since it was looking on the incorrect
PHY page (due to the page being used gets switched before the function
to check link gets executed).
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
index 5f0922613f1a..a977339fbe0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
@@ -359,6 +359,13 @@ the requested fine-grained filtering for incoming packets is not
 supported, the driver may time stamp more than just the requested types
 of packets.
 
+Drivers are free to use a more permissive configuration than the requested
+configuration. It is expected that drivers should only implement directly the
+most generic mode that can be supported. For example if the hardware can
+support HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_EVENT, then it should generally always upscale
+HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_L2_SYNC_MESSAGE, and so forth, as HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_EVENT
+is more generic (and more useful to applications).
+
 A driver which supports hardware time stamping shall update the struct
 with the actual, possibly more permissive configuration. If the
 requested packets cannot be time stamped, then nothing should be