Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/6] octeontx2-vf: Ethtool support

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:05:49 +0200

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:09:45PM +0530, Sunil Kovvuri wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:51 AM Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:17:23AM +0530, [email-masked] wrote:
> > > +int __weak otx2vf_open(struct net_device *netdev)
> > > +{
> > > +     return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +int __weak otx2vf_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
> > > +{
> > > +     return 0;
> > > +}
> >
> > Hi Sunil
> >
> > weak symbols are very unusual in a driver. Why are they required?
> >
> > Thanks
> >         Andrew
>
> For ethtool configs which need interface reinitialization of interface
> we need to either call PF or VF open/close fn()s.
> If VF driver is not compiled in, then PF driver compilation will fail
> without these weak symbols.
> They are there just for compilation purpose, no other use.

It doesn't make sense, your PF driver should be changed to allow
compilation with those empty functions.

Thanks

> Thanks,
> Sunil.