On 6/25/19 2:00 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 11:27 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> From: Jes Sorensen <jsoren...@fb.com>
>>
>> The previous patch broke the build with a static declaration for
>> a public function.
>>
>> Fixes: 8f0916c6dc5c (net/mlx5e: Fix ethtool rxfh commands when
>> CONFIG_MLX5_EN_RXNFC is disabled)
>> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jsoren...@fb.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c
>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c
>> index dd764e0471f2..776040d91bd4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c
>> @@ -1905,7 +1905,8 @@ static int mlx5e_flash_device(struct net_device
>> *dev,
>>  /* When CONFIG_MLX5_EN_RXNFC=n we only support ETHTOOL_GRXRINGS
>>   * otherwise this function will be defined from en_fs_ethtool.c
>>   */
> 
> As the above comment states, when CONFIG_MLX5_EN_RXNFC is disabled,
> mlx5e_get_rxnfc is only defined, declared and used in this file, so it
> must be static. Otherwise it will be defined in another file which
> provides much much more functionality for ethtool flow steering.
> 
> can you please provide more information of what went wrong on your
> build machine ?

Sorry was swamped here!

Looks like you're right, it only triggers in our build due to some
patches we don't have from upstream. I did the patch against upstream
and applied it to our tree, so should have checked further there.

Cheers,
Jes

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