netdev - Re: [PATCH net] dpll: fix build failure due to rcu_dereference

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Message-ID: <20240229131032.208d0d17@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:10:32 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: davem@...emloft.net
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, Tasmiya
 Nalatwad <tasmiya@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, vadim.fedorenko@...ux.dev,
 arkadiusz.kubalewski@...el.com, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] dpll: fix build failure due to
 rcu_dereference_check() on unknown type

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:05:15 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Tasmiya reports that their compiler complains that we deref
> a pointer to unknown type with rcu_dereference_rtnl():
> 
> include/linux/rcupdate.h:439:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct dpll_pin’
> 
> Unclear what compiler it is, at the moment, and we can't report
> but since DPLL can't be a module - move the code from the header
> into the source file.

Applied, and pushed for the PR..