netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] bnx2x: Populate database for Idlechk tests.

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Date:   Fri, 03 Jul 2020 13:03:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     skalluru@...vell.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, aelior@...vell.com, irusskikh@...vell.com,
        mkalderon@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] bnx2x: Populate database for Idlechk
 tests.

From: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <skalluru@...vell.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 17:39:48 +0530

> +/* struct holding the database of self test checks (registers and predicates) */
> +/* lines start from 2 since line 1 is heading in csv */
> +#define ST_DB_LINES 468
> +struct st_record st_database[ST_DB_LINES] = {

This will introduce a build warning because there is no external declaration for
this global variable.

A patch series must be fully bisectable, meaning that you can't just
add this declaration in a future patch in the series.  It has to be
added in the same patch where the symbol is defined.