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LIN7-4808 : i40e ethernet driver upgrade fail

Created: Sep 20, 2015    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: Sep 24, 2015
Found In Version: 7.0.0.9
Fix Version: 7.0.0.10
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Kernel

Description

WR7 introduces upgrades to the i40e ethernet driver, but clearly they weren't tested at all, since the driver has build warnings due to mismatched structs, and outright build fails to to fields in structs that no longer even exist.

  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_diag.o
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.o
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.o
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c:8139:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
  .ndo_bridge_setlink = i40e_ndo_bridge_setlink,
  ^
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c:8139:2: warning: (near initialization for ‘i40e_netdev_ops.ndo_bridge_setlink’)
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_dcb.o
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_dcb_nl.o
  CC      drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_fcoe.o
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_fcoe.c: In function ‘i40e_fcoe_config_netdev’:
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_fcoe.c:1521:8: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘dev_port’
  netdev->dev_port = 1;
        ^
scripts/Makefile.build:308: recipe for target 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_fcoe.o' failed
make[1]: *** [drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_fcoe.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Makefile:1442: recipe for target 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/' failed

Steps to Reproduce

 1029  git checkout -f standard/intel-x86-64
 1030  git whatchanged drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e
 1031  make allyesconfig
 1032  make -j10 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/

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