linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: ipath: fix build failure

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Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:52:55 -0400
From:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ipath: fix build failure

On 09/01/2015 09:01 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> building of ipath depends on infiniband. And if ipath is selected and
> infiniband is not then build fails with:
> ERROR: "ib_alloc_device" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_dealloc_device" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_dispatch_event" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_register_device" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_unregister_device" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_modify_qp_is_ok" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "ib_wq" [drivers/staging/ipath/ib_ipath.ko] undefined!
> 
> Config at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/31/328
> 
> Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig
> index 041ce06..1edc21b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ipath/Kconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  config INFINIBAND_IPATH
>  	tristate "QLogic HTX HCA support"
>  	depends on 64BIT && NET && HT_IRQ
> +	depends on INFINIBAND
>  	---help---
>  	This is a driver for the deprecated QLogic Hyper-Transport
>  	IB host channel adapter (model QHT7140),
> 

The ipath driver was moved to staging/rdma/ipath and has proper
protection against being built without the InfiniBand subsystem.  Where
are you seeing this tree?  I'm curious because I no longer have this
driver in this location in my tree and I never pushed it anywhere other
than one of my trees.  Is this maybe in linux-next?

-- 
Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
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