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    mlx4: fix "initializer element not constant" compiler error · 41b14502
    Jacob Keller authored
    A recent commit e8937681 ("devlink: prepare to support region
    operations") used the region_cr_space_str and region_fw_health_str
    variables as initializers for the devlink_region_ops structures.
    
    This can result in compiler errors:
    drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox//mlx4/crdump.c:45:10: error: initializer
    element is not constant
       .name = region_cr_space_str,
               ^
    drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox//mlx4/crdump.c:45:10: note: (near
    initialization for ‘region_cr_space_ops.name’)
    drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox//mlx4/crdump.c:50:10: error: initializer
    element is not constant
       .name = region_fw_health_str,
    
    The variables were made to be "const char * const", indicating that both
    the pointer and data were constant. This was enough to resolve this on
    recent GCC (gcc (GCC) 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1-1) for this author).
    
    Unfortunately this is not enough for older compilers to realize that the
    variable can be treated as a constant expression.
    
    Fix this by introducing macros for the string and use those instead of
    the variable name in the region ops structures.
    Reported-by: default avatartanhuazhong <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
    Fixes: e8937681 ("devlink: prepare to support region operations")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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