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Date:	Sat, 18 Oct 2014 11:20:44 +0200
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	cwang@...pensource.com, roy.qing.li@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vxlan: remove the dead codes

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:24:49 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:33:08 -0700
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:04 PM,  <roy.qing.li@...il.com> wrote:
> >> From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
> >>
> >> remove the dead codes, no user uses vxlan_salt
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/net/vxlan.c |    4 ----
> >>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> >> index 77ab844..855a81d 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> >> @@ -152,8 +152,6 @@ struct vxlan_dev {
> >>         struct hlist_head fdb_head[FDB_HASH_SIZE];
> >>  };
> >>
> >> -/* salt for hash table */
> >> -static u32 vxlan_salt __read_mostly;
> > 
> > Hmm, it has never been used since it was born. Maybe we should
> > really use for vxlan hash table?
> 
> Yes, agreed, and I am very sure that this was Stephen Hemminger's
> original intention.

yes. never did rekeying, and it would have been hard.
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