Re: [PATCH] staging: ipath: fix build failure

From: Doug Ledford
Date: Tue Sep 01 2015 - 10:53:02 EST


On 09/01/2015 09:01 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> building of ipath depends on infiniband. And if ipath is selected and
> infiniband is not then build fails with:
> ERROR: "ib_alloc_device" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_dealloc_device" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_dispatch_event" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_register_device" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_unregister_device" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_modify_qp_is_ok" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_wq" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
>
> Config at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/31/328
>
> Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig
> index 041ce06..1edc21b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> config INFINIBAND_IPATH
> tristate "QLogic HTX HCA support"
> depends on 64BIT && NET && HT_IRQ
> + depends on INFINIBAND
> ---help---
> This is a driver for the deprecated QLogic Hyper-Transport
> IB host channel adapter (model QHT7140),
>

The ipath driver was moved to staging/rdma/ipath and has proper
protection against being built without the InfiniBand subsystem. Where
are you seeing this tree? I'm curious because I no longer have this
driver in this location in my tree and I never pushed it anywhere other
than one of my trees. Is this maybe in linux-next?

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Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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