Re: [E1000-devel] e1000e Compile error on Red Hat 6.8

[Jarod W. <ja...@re...>]

The Red Hat backport isn't broken, it just "is". The change simply caused a build failure, because some function names changed. An updated out of tree driver would need to special case RHEL-6.8 to use the updated function names, which match upstream. Out of curiosity, what functionality is missing from the in box driver that is required?

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Jarod Wilson


> On May 21, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Fujinaka, Todd <tod...@in...> wrote:
> 
> I'm a little unclear on your complaint as there are no version numbers. Are you telling us the Red Hat backport is broken or are you telling us that the standalone driver is broken?
> 
> There is a new e1000e standalone version coming very soon if that's what the issue is.
> 
> Todd Fujinaka
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:ja...@re...] 
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:01 AM
> To: Spencer Hall <dra...@ya...>
> Cc: e10...@li...
> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] e1000e Compile error on Red Hat 6.8
> 
>> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 05:34:22AM +0000, Spencer Hall wrote:
>> I have been compiling the e1000e module for all the Red Hat 6 kernels. With the latest release of Red Hat 6.8 with the new kernel 2.6.32-642, when trying to build the e1000e module it fails with the following error:
>> implicit declaration of function 'vlan_tx_tag_present'
>> A similar problem showed up on virtualbox:
>> See:virtualbox.org/ticket/15411virtualbox.org/changeset/60995/vbox
>> It seems like a definitions problem, but this is beyond my ability.
> 
> RHEL-6.8 includes a backport of:
> 
>    commit df8a39defad46b83694ea6dd868d332976d62cc0
>    Author: Jiri Pirko <ji...@re...>
>    Date:   Tue Jan 13 17:13:44 2015 +0100
> 
>    net: rename vlan_tx_* helpers since "tx" is misleading there
> 
> s/vlan_tx_tag_present/skb_vlan_tag_present/
> 
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> Jarod Wilson
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