netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: fix "initializer element not constant" compiler error

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Date:   Sun, 29 Mar 2020 09:44:49 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tanhuazhong <tanhuazhong@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: fix "initializer element not constant"
 compiler error

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 02:08:35PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> A recent commit e8937681797c ("devlink: prepare to support region
> operations") used the region_cr_space_str and region_fw_health_str
> variables as initializers for the devlink_region_ops structures.
>
> This can result in compiler errors:
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox//mlx4/crdump.c:45:10: error: initializer
> element is not constant
>    .name = region_cr_space_str,
>            ^
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox//mlx4/crdump.c:45:10: note: (near
> initialization for ‘region_cr_space_ops.name’)
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox//mlx4/crdump.c:50:10: error: initializer
> element is not constant
>    .name = region_fw_health_str,
>
> The variables were made to be "const char * const", indicating that both
> the pointer and data were constant. This was enough to resolve this on
> recent GCC (gcc (GCC) 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1-1) for this author).
>
> Unfortunately this is not enough for older compilers to realize that the
> variable can be treated as a constant expression.
>
> Fix this by introducing macros for the string and use those instead of
> the variable name in the region ops structures.
>
> Reported-by: tanhuazhong <tanhuazhong@...wei.com>
> Fixes: e8937681797c ("devlink: prepare to support region operations")
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/crdump.c | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>