netdev - Re: [PATCH] ovs: Turn vports with dependencies into separate modules

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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:57:13 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovs: Turn vports with dependencies into separate modules

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:43 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:29:06 +0200
>
>> The internal and netdev vport remain part of openvswitch.ko. Encap
>> vports including vxlan, gre, and geneve can be built as separate
>> modules and are loaded on demand. Modules can be unloaded after use.
>> Datapath ports keep a reference to the vport module during their
>> lifetime.
>>
>> Allows to remove the error prone maintenance of the global list
>> vport_ops_list.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
>
> Applied, thanks a lot Thomas.

Thomas,

it fails the build when lockdep is on:
ERROR: "lockdep_ovsl_is_held" [net/openvswitch/vport-gre.ko] undefined!
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