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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: olof@lixom.net
Cc: subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com, Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	themann@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: INET_LRO as tristate and use from modules
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 12:43:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090508.124347.142493836.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090422.021218.92737677.davem@davemloft.net>

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:12:18 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:33:19 -0500
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:23:03AM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
>>>   MODPOST 338 modules
>>> ERROR: ".lro_receive_skb" [drivers/net/pasemi_mac_driver.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: ".lro_flush_all" [drivers/net/pasemi_mac_driver.ko] undefined!
>>> WARNING: modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es).
>>> To see full details build your kernel with:
>>> 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
>>> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
>>> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>> 
>> This seems to be a problem with all tristate-capable drivers that use
>> LRO (and uses select INET_LRO in their Kconfig): INET_LRO is a tristate
>> and can thus be a module. Looks like it needs to be a bool instead?
> 
> Yes, making this a bool would be the easiest fix.
> 
> By why don't we get the same problem for PHYLIB?  It's also
> tristate and "select"'d by a whole slew of networking drivers.

I guess nobody has any idea...

I'll just make INET_LRO a bool to fix this.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-21 18:53 [BUILD FAILURE 08/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/pasemi_mac_driver.ko] Subrata Modak
2009-04-21 19:33 ` INET_LRO as tristate and use from modules (was: Re: [BUILD FAILURE 08/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/pasemi_mac_driver.ko]) Olof Johansson
2009-04-22  9:12   ` INET_LRO as tristate and use from modules David Miller
2009-05-08 19:43     ` David Miller [this message]

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