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e1000e: fix timing for 82579 Gigabit Ethernet controller
authorBernd Faust <berndfaust@gmail.com>
Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:42:07 +0000 (19:42 +0100)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:24:40 +0000 (23:24 -0700)
commit6628e24bccf72bae79d2b2bad7ccc8ccd8808812
tree6dc71f8aebbdd65c84909ab7c45d51bd7de0e16a
parent08784b7a59ba97ebad48b9bb7cf5423fd23b25de
e1000e: fix timing for 82579 Gigabit Ethernet controller

After an upgrade to Linux kernel v4.x the hardware timestamps of the
82579 Gigabit Ethernet Controller are different than expected.
The values that are being read are almost four times as big as before
the kernel upgrade.

The difference is that after the upgrade the driver sets the clock
frequency to 25MHz, where before the upgrade it was set to 96MHz. Intel
confirmed that the correct frequency for this network adapter is 96MHz.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Faust <berndfaust@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sasha Neftin <sasha.neftin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Orabug: 26243014
(cherry picked from commit 5313eeccd2d7f486be4e5c7560e3e2be239ec8f7)
Signed-off-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c