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

David Miller
2016-04-13T15:15:13Z

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:50:28 +1000

> 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
>
> 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().

Thanks!