netdev - RE: randconfig build error with next-20140909, in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c

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Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:47:56 -0700
From:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	Anish Bhatt <anish@...lsio.com>, <eddie.wai@...adcom.com>
CC:	Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: randconfig build error with next-20140909, in
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c

On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 20:24 +0000, Anish Bhatt wrote: 
> This is caused by c99d667e8527  ("cnic : Cleanup CONFIG_IPV6 & VLAN check")
> 
> So I'm not really sure what the fix for this is. CNIC will properly only support 
> [m] or [n] when IPV6 is compiled as a module, but if you set SCSI_BNX2X_FCOE or 
> SCSI_BNX2_ISCSI to be in built, there is a 'select CNIC' that forces CNIC to be 
> inbuilt, even though this is not supported by Kconfig. I was under the 
> assumption that select will not forcibly change m to inbuilt (or perhaps I'm 
> missing some syntax suboption ?)
> 
> This is still fixable in SCSI_BNX2_ISCSI using the same logic used in the above 
> mentioned commit, but not so in SCSI_BNX2X_FCOE where it causes a recursive 
> dependency error (thought it is fixing the issue nevertheless), and none of the 
>  other solutions I tried seemed to work either. 

Adding depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n doesn't work for SCSI_BNX2X_FCOE, but
works for SCSI_BNX2_ISCSI?

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