Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: Fix dependencies with HSR

From: George McCollister
Date: Sat Feb 20 2021 - 09:32:09 EST


On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:14 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2/19/2021 9:12 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > The core DSA framework uses hsr_is_master() which would not resolve to a
> > valid symbol if HSR is built-into the kernel and DSA is a module.
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> > Fixes: 18596f504a3e ("net: dsa: add support for offloading HSR")
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > David, Jakub,
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> > This showed up in linux-next which means it will show up in Linus' tree
> > soon as well when your pull request gets sent out.
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> I had initially considered making is_hsr_master() a static inline that
> would compare dev->dev.type->name with "hsr" since the HSR master would
> set a custom dev_type, however the xrs700x driver would still fail to
> link because it calls hsr_get_version() and for that one there is no
> easy solution.

Thanks for looking into this. It's not something I've run into before.
It didn't occur to me what would happen if HSR was a module. I'll look
out for this in the future.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Reviewed-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@xxxxxxxxx>

-George

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