Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 2015 22:23:32 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] net/ibm/emac: bump version numbers for correct work with ethtool | From | David Miller <> |
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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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