netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next] qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx

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Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:33:47 +0000
From:	Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@...gic.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dept-HSG Linux NIC Dev <Dept-HSGLinuxNICDev@...gic.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined
 reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 2:00 AM
> To: Shahed Shaikh
> Cc: netdev; Dept-HSG Linux NIC Dev
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined
> reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port'
> 
> From: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@...gic.com>
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:42:25 -0400
> 
> > From: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@...gic.com>
> >
> > Commit 2b3d7b758c687("qlcnic: Add VXLAN Rx offload support") uses
> > vxlan_get_rx_port() which caused build failure when VXLAN=m.
> >
> > This patch fixes the build failure by adding dependency on VXLAN in
> > Kconfig of qlcnic module and use vxlan_get_rx_port() accordingly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@...gic.com>
> > ---
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Please apply this patch to net-next.
> 
> Do this properly, don't just CPP protect the symbol that fails.
> 
> Look at how I40E_VXLAN is used, it protect everything from the
> ndo_*() ops to the surrounding support code.

Hi David,

Looks like net-next is closed. Please let me know if I can send the revised version of this patch as per your suggestion.

Thanks,
Shahed
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