Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bnxt_en: define sriov_lock unconditionally

[Sathya Perla]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> On today's linux-next:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_vfr.o: In function `bnxt_dl_register':
> bnxt_vfr.c:(.text+0x1440): undefined reference to `devlink_alloc'
> bnxt_vfr.c:(.text+0x14c0): undefined reference to `devlink_register'
> bnxt_vfr.c:(.text+0x14e0): undefined reference to `devlink_free'
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_vfr.o: In function `bnxt_dl_unregister':
> bnxt_vfr.c:(.text+0x1534): undefined reference to `devlink_unregister'
> bnxt_vfr.c:(.text+0x153c): undefined reference to `devlink_free'
>
> I think you are just missing a "depends on MAY_USE_DEVLINK"
> in INFINIBAND_BNXT_RE, which uses 'select BNXT'.
>
> This is a tricky corner case for Kconfig, where the MAY_USE_DEVLINK
> dependency is silently ignored for BNXT as long as MAY_USE_DEVLINK
> is not "=n".

Can you pls share your .config so that I can reproduce this issue and
ensure that my fix really works...