Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the net-next tree

From: Jeff Kirsher
Date: Fri Apr 22 2016 - 19:20:51 EST


On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 10:20 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:15:13AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > > After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> > > allmodconfig) failed like thisi (this has actually been failing
> for a
> > > few days, now):
>
> > > ERROR: "__bad_udelay" [drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko]
> undefined!
>
> > > Caused by commit
>
> > >ÂÂ 49425dfc7451 ("ixgbe: Add support for x550em_a 10G MAC type")
>
> > > arm only allows udelay()s up to 2 milliseconds. This commit
> > > adds a 5 ms udelay in ixgbe_acquire_swfw_sync_x550em_a() in
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c.
>
> > Jeff, please have your folks look into this. Probably just a
> simple
> > conversion to mdelay().
>
> This is still present, it's been breaking ARM allmodconfig builds for
> about two weeks now.

Interesting that no one spoke up until just a week ago. ÂI have a fix
and I ready to push it to David Miller.

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