patch 'net/iavf: fix Rx timestamp validity check' has been queued to stable release 24.11.4

[Keller, Jacob E]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2025 3:36 AM
> To: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
> Cc: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; dpdk stable
> <stable at dpdk.org>
> Subject: Re: patch 'net/iavf: fix Rx timestamp validity check' has been queued to
> stable release 24.11.4
> 
> On 21/11/2025 23:41, Jacob Keller wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 11/21/2025 3:20 AM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 24.11.4
> >>
> >> Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
> >> It will be pushed if I get no objections before 11/26/25. So please
> >> shout if anyone has objections.
> >>
> >> Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
> >> patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
> >> needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
> >> (ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
> >> correctly done.
> >>
> >> Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
> >> https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable
> >>
> >> This queued commit can be viewed at:
> >> https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-
> stable/commit/eb5dc1ca76c40f05514251982a21a4d77b6d709f
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > It was recently reported to me that this fix has a regression as the
> > validity check is happening *before* capabilities get exchanged. I just
> > sent a follow-up fix to ensure the driver exchanges PTP capabilities
> > with the PF during init.
> >
> 
> Hi Jake,
> 
> Thanks for letting me know. I've removed it from the commits to push to
> 24.11 branch for now. When the new fix is also available on the DPDK
> main branch for backporting, I'll backport both patches.
> 
> thanks,
> Kevin.
> 

I agree that’s the best approach. Thanks!

> 
> > Thanks,
> > Jake