linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RDMA/hns: Fix build error again

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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:08:51 -0400
From:   Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Lijun Ou <oulijun@...wei.com>,
        "Wei Hu(Xavier)" <xavier.huwei@...wei.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>, YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        Shaobo Xu <xushaobo2@...wei.com>,
        Shamir Rabinovitch <shamir.rabinovitch@...cle.com>,
        Xi Wang <wangxi11@...wei.com>, Tao Tian <tiantao6@...wei.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDMA/hns: Fix build error again

On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 23:18 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This is not the first attempt to fix building random configurations,
> unfortunately the attempt in commit a07fc0bb483e ("RDMA/hns: Fix build
> error") caused a new problem when CONFIG_INFINIBAND_HNS_HIP06=m
> and CONFIG_INFINIBAND_HNS_HIP08=y:
> 
> drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_main.o:(.rodata+0xe60): undefined
> reference to `__this_module'
> 
> Revert commits a07fc0bb483e ("RDMA/hns: Fix build error") and
> a3e2d4c7e766 ("RDMA/hns: remove obsolete Kconfig comment") to get
> back to the previous state, then fix the issues described there
> differently, by adding more specific dependencies: INFINIBAND_HNS
> can now only be built-in if at least one of HNS or HNS3 are
> built-in, and the individual back-ends are only available if
> that code is reachable from the main driver.
> 
> Fixes: a07fc0bb483e ("RDMA/hns: Fix build error")
> Fixes: a3e2d4c7e766 ("RDMA/hns: remove obsolete Kconfig comment")
> Fixes: dd74282df573 ("RDMA/hns: Initialize the PCI device for hip08
> RoCE")
> Fixes: 08805fdbeb2d ("RDMA/hns: Split hw v1 driver from hns roce
> driver")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

This fix looks reasonable, but since I can't test this at all, and I'm
personally tired of trying and failing to fix this issue, I need to ask
if you've tried all the permutations for this just to confirm it works
in all valid cases?

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