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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [net-next] net/mlx5e: select CONFIG_MLXFW
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> With the introduction of mlx5 firmware flash support, we get a link
> error with CONFIG_MLXFW=m and CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=y:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw.o: In function `mlx5_firmware_flash':
> fw.c:(.text+0x9d4): undefined reference to `mlxfw_firmware_flash'

Thanks Arnd, I got a report on that from Jakub but you were before me here..

> We could have a more elaborate method to force MLX5 to be a loadable
> module in this case, but the easiest fix seems to be to always enable
> MLXFW as well, like we do for CONFIG_MLXSW_SPECTRUM, which is the other
> user of mlxfw_firmware_flash.

We would not want to force mlx5 users to build mlxfw.

So lets either use the more elaborate method or maybe instead of using
IS_ENABLED in mlxfw.h use IS_REACHABLE (this was suggested by Jakub)

Or.

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