RE: randconfig build error with next-20140909, in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c

From: Michael Chan
Date: Tue Sep 09 2014 - 16:48:08 EST


On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 20:24 +0000, Anish Bhatt wrote:
> This is caused by c99d667e8527 ("cnic : Cleanup CONFIG_IPV6 & VLAN check")
>
> So I'm not really sure what the fix for this is. CNIC will properly only support
> [m] or [n] when IPV6 is compiled as a module, but if you set SCSI_BNX2X_FCOE or
> SCSI_BNX2_ISCSI to be in built, there is a 'select CNIC' that forces CNIC to be
> inbuilt, even though this is not supported by Kconfig. I was under the
> assumption that select will not forcibly change m to inbuilt (or perhaps I'm
> missing some syntax suboption ?)
>
> This is still fixable in SCSI_BNX2_ISCSI using the same logic used in the above
> mentioned commit, but not so in SCSI_BNX2X_FCOE where it causes a recursive
> dependency error (thought it is fixing the issue nevertheless), and none of the
> other solutions I tried seemed to work either.

Adding depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n doesn't work for SCSI_BNX2X_FCOE, but
works for SCSI_BNX2_ISCSI?

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