Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the net-next tree

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 13 April 2016 11:15:13 David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:50:28 +1000
> 
> > After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> > allmodconfig) failed like thisi (this has actually been failing for a
> > few days, now):
> > 
> > ERROR: "__bad_udelay" [drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko] undefined!
> > 
> > Caused by commit
> > 
> >   49425dfc7451 ("ixgbe: Add support for x550em_a 10G MAC type")
> > 
> > arm only allows udelay()s up to 2 milliseconds.  This commit
> > adds a 5 ms udelay in ixgbe_acquire_swfw_sync_x550em_a() in
> > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c.
> 
> Jeff, please have your folks look into this.  Probably just a simple
> conversion to mdelay().
> 

I sent a patch, pretty sure we can use msleep() here rather than
a wasteful mdelay().

	Arnd