Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2018 09:47:02 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | linux-next: build failure after merge of the net-next tree |
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Hi all,
After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
In file included from drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c:9: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c: In function '__i40e_add_stat_strings': drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool_stats.h:193:20: error: function '__i40e_add_stat_strings' can never be inlined because it uses variable argument lists static inline void __i40e_add_stat_strings(u8 **p, const struct i40e_stats stats[], ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Caused by commit
8fd75c58a09a ("i40e: move ethtool stats boiler plate code to i40e_ethtool_stats.h")
It is not clear this patch has any value anyway as the moved functions are only used in the file they were moved from.
I reverted that commit for today.
The same problem would exist in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf (where a lot of code is duplicated from drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e) except that this function is not declared inline there. Luckily, i40e_ethtool_stats.h is only included my one file drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_ethtool.c, otherwise there would be multiple copies of __i40e_add_stat_strings().
Surely there is some scope for factoring out some common code between these two drivers? -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |