the drivers fail to build on RH 9.6

[ykulik-rbc]

On kernel 5.14.0-570.17.1.el9_6 the driver build fails with the error below. Kernel structure ethtool_ts_info was renamed to kernel_ethtool_ts_info . Changing the structure name fixes the issue.

make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-570.17.1.el9_6.x86_64' CC [M] /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic/exanic-main.o CC [M] /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic/exanic-filter.o CC [M] /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic/exanic-ctx.o CC [M] /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic/exanic-dev.o CC [M] /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic/exanic-netdev.o /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic/exanic-netdev.c:1668:31: error: initialization of ‘int (*)(struct net_device *, struct kernel_ethtool_ts_info )’ from incompatible pointer type ‘int ()(struct net_device *, struct ethtool_ts_info *)’ [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] 1668 | .get_ts_info = exanic_netdev_get_ts_info, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic/exanic-netdev.c:1668:31: note: (near initialization for ‘exanic_ethtool_ops.get_ts_info’) cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:249: /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic/exanic-netdev.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [Makefile:1947: /data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-570.17.1.el9_6.x86_64' make[1]: *** [Makefile:27: default] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/data1/home/ykulik/exanic-software-2.7.5/modules/exanic' make: *** [Makefile:9: modules] Error 2

[AlexeySaff]

yeah, simple is quite simple , but official CISCO position is

"Currently RHEL 9.6 support is targeted for release Q1 CY 2026 per the DE."

[AdiPircalabu]

Nice work guys, thanks for that! Renaming the structure fixed the build for us. See attached a patch that applies against master and builds on:

• Fedora 40 /usr/src/kernels/6.14.5-100.fc40.x86_64
• RL9.6, 9.5 and 9.4, kernels /usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-570.18.1.el9_6.x86_64/, /usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-503.40.1.el9_5.x86_64 and /usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-427.24.1.el9_4.x86_64
• RL8.10 and 8.9, kernels /usr/src/kernels/4.18.0-553.51.1.el8_10.x86_64 and /usr/src/kernels/4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9.x86_64 Thanks again for keeping the flame alive haha!

exanic-software_RHEL9.6_build.patch.txt