Re: [revert 0d60d8df6f49] [net/net-next] [6.8-rc5] Build Failure

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 09:54:01 EST


On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 3:47 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:55:22 +0100 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > I do not see other solution than this, otherwise we have to add more
> > pollution to include/linux/netdevice.h
>
> Right :(
>
> > diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> > index a9c973b92294bb110cf3cd336485972127b01b58..40797ea80bc6273cae6b7773d0a3e47459a72150
> > 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> > @@ -2469,7 +2469,7 @@ struct net_device {
> > struct devlink_port *devlink_port;
> >
> > #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DPLL)
> > - struct dpll_pin __rcu *dpll_pin;
> > + void __rcu *dpll_pin;
> > #endif
>
> If DPLL wants to hide its type definitions the helpers must live
> in dpll? IOW move netdev_dpll_pin() to drivers/dpll/dpll_core.c

Oh for some reason I thought this stuff was a module.

Otherwise, why having dpll 'core' helpers in net/core/dev.c