[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [igbvf] Add igbvf driver

[Alex Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 16:51 +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Friday 10 Dec 2010 20:57:21 Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Driver for Intel 82576 based virtual functions, based on Intel source
> > code available at:
> > 
> >     http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000  (igbvf-1.0.7)
> > 
> > Based on initial port from Eric Keller <ekeller at princeton.edu>.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks.  There are some issues with the patch:
> 
> drivers/net/igbvf/Makefile is a Linux makefile fragment and should not be 
> present.

Dropped

> igbvf_vf.c does not build:
> 
> drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf_vf.c: In function ‘igbvf_update_mc_addr_list_vf’:
> drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf_vf.c:289: error: ‘msgbuf’ may be used uninitialized in 
> this function
> drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf_vf.c:270: note: ‘msgbuf’ was declared here
> make: *** [bin/igbvf_vf.o] Error 1

Hmm, looks like a bug in the upstream driver.  A tiny code rearrangement
should fix it.  I'll send a new version.  BTW, I'm not able to duplicate
the build error, so please let me know if you're doing anything special
to check for errors.  Thanks,

Alex