[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net v2] ice: health.c: fix compilation on gcc 7.5

Zhuo, Qiuxu qiuxu.zhuo at intel.com
Fri Feb 7 01:49:51 UTC 2025


> From: Kitszel, Przemyslaw <przemyslaw.kitszel at intel.com>
> [...]
> Subject: [PATCH iwl-net v2] ice: health.c: fix compilation on gcc 7.5
> 
> GCC 7 is not as good as GCC 8+ in telling what is a compile-time const, and
> thus could be used for static storage.
> Fortunately keeping strings as const arrays is enough to make old gcc happy.
> 
> Excerpt from the report:
> My GCC is: gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0.
> 
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.o
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/health.c:35:3: error: initializer element
> is not constant
>    ice_common_port_solutions, {ice_port_number_label}},
>    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/health.c:35:3: note: (near initialization
> for 'ice_health_status_lookup[0].solution')
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/health.c:35:31: error: initializer
> element is not constant
>    ice_common_port_solutions, {ice_port_number_label}},
>                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/health.c:35:31: note: (near initialization
> for 'ice_health_status_lookup[0].data_label[0]')
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/health.c:37:46: error: initializer
> element is not constant
>    "Change or replace the module or cable.", {ice_port_number_label}},
>                                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/health.c:37:46: note: (near initialization
> for 'ice_health_status_lookup[1].data_label[0]')
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/health.c:39:3: error: initializer element
> is not constant
>    ice_common_port_solutions, {ice_port_number_label}},
>    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Fixes: 85d6164ec56d ("ice: add fw and port health reporters")
> Reported-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo at intel.com>
> Closes:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CY8PR11MB7134BF7A46D71E50D25FA7A989F
> 72 at CY8PR11MB7134.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski at linux.intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel at intel.com>

   Tested-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo at intel.com>

Thanks!



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