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Date:	Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:47:28 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ariele@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eilong@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Fix compilation when CONFIG_PCI_IOV is
 not defined

From: "Ariel Elior" <ariele@...adcom.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:36:25 +0200

> This patch ifdefs out the use of PCI_IOV_RESOURCES which exists in the
> kernel only when CONFIG_PCI_IOV is defined. There is no point in doing
> the same for the invocation of SRIOV functionality in the driver as it
> will be immediately failed by a kernel which was thus compiled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@...adcom.com>

This fixes the build but this is a very disappointing patch.

None of your SR-IOV support can possibly work if CONFIG_PCI_IOV
is not set.

Look at how the SFC driver has a special Kconfig option and elides
all of it's SR-IOV code when that Kconfig option is not set.

That kind of Kconfig option is where you express the CONFIG_PCI_IOV
dependency, rather than in a hackish way with ifdefs as a knee-jerk
response to a build failure reports.

I'm not applying this patch, segregate your driver properly and use
Kconfig dependencies to elide the building of all of the SR-IOV
support code in this driver.
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