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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:57:15 -0700
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
cc:	"Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] bnx2i/cnic: more kconfig dependencies


On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:25 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
> 
> BNX2I selects CNIC, CNIC selects UIO.
> It looks like BNX2I also needs to select UIO.
> 

Yeah, it looks like if A selects B and B selects C, A does not
automatically select C, so we need to add it explicitly.

> BTW, CNIC is under NETDEV_1000, which is not enabled.
> I don't see any need to enable (select) it in this case,
> but I could be wrong(?).  Should BNX2I also select NETDEV_1000?

No that's not needed assuming we stay with using symbol_get() to resolve
a bnx2 driver symbol for now.

Thanks.

Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

> 
> cnic.c:(.text+0x17990b): undefined reference to `uio_event_notify'
> cnic.c:(.text+0x17a197): undefined reference to `uio_unregister_device'
> cnic.c:(.text+0x17c618): undefined reference to `__uio_register_device'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/bnx2i/Kconfig |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> --- linux-next-20090616.orig/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/Kconfig
> +++ linux-next-20090616/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/Kconfig
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ config SCSI_BNX2_ISCSI
>  	tristate "Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI support"
>  	select SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS
>  	select CNIC
> +	select UIO
>  	depends on PCI
>  	---help---
>  	This driver supports iSCSI offload for the Broadcom NetXtreme II
> 
> 


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