On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

With the introduction of mlx5 firmware flash support, we get a link
error with CONFIG_MLXFW=m and CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=y:

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw.o: In function `mlx5_firmware_flash':
fw.c:(.text+0x9d4): undefined reference to `mlxfw_firmware_flash'

Thanks Arnd, I got a report on that from Jakub but you were before me here..

We could have a more elaborate method to force MLX5 to be a loadable
module in this case, but the easiest fix seems to be to always enable
MLXFW as well, like we do for CONFIG_MLXSW_SPECTRUM, which is the other
user of mlxfw_firmware_flash.

We would not want to force mlx5 users to build mlxfw.

So lets either use the more elaborate method or maybe instead of using
IS_ENABLED in mlxfw.h use IS_REACHABLE (this was suggested by Jakub)

Or.