[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: bug fix for compile issue in KNI on Fedora 18 with kernel 3.6.10

Helin Zhang helin.zhang at intel.com
Thu May 22 05:35:17 CEST 2014


Error of "implicit-function-declaration" can be seen when building KNI
kernel module on Linux kernel 3.6.10 platform, as follows.
"x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_ethtool.c:
  In function \u2018igb_get_eee\u2019:
x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_ethtool.c:
  2441:4: error: implicit declaration of function
  \u2018mmd_eee_adv_to_ethtool_adv_t\u2019
  [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_ethtool.c:
 In function \u2018igb_set_eee\u2019:
x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/igb_ethtool.c:
  2551:2: error: implicit declaration of function
  \u2018ethtool_adv_to_mmd_eee_adv_t\u2019
  [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]"

The root cause is as follows.
On Fedora 18 with kernel 3.6.10, ETHTOOL_GEEE is defined in Linux
header file of "linux/ethtool.h", while is not defined in most of other
linux kernel versions.
mmd_eee_cap_to_ethtool_sup_t(), mmd_eee_adv_to_ethtool_adv_t() and
ethtool_adv_to_mmd_eee_adv_t() in kcompat.h are disabled by "#if
!defined(ETHTOOL_GEEE) || (RHEL_RELEASE_CODE && RHEL_RELEASE_CODE <=
RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(6,4))", while are called in igb_get_eee() in
igb_ethtool.c which is enabled by "#ifdef ETHTOOL_GEEE".

Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/kcompat.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/kcompat.h b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/kcompat.h
index e9e80ea..4c27d5d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/kcompat.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/kcompat.h
@@ -3586,7 +3586,7 @@ static inline bool ether_addr_equal(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2)
 #define ADVERTISED_40000baseLR4_Full	(1 << 26)
 #endif
 
-#if !defined(ETHTOOL_GEEE) || (RHEL_RELEASE_CODE && RHEL_RELEASE_CODE <= RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(6,4))
+#if defined(ETHTOOL_GEEE) || (RHEL_RELEASE_CODE && RHEL_RELEASE_CODE <= RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(6,4))
 /**
  * mmd_eee_cap_to_ethtool_sup_t
  * @eee_cap: value of the MMD EEE Capability register
-- 
1.8.1.4



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