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Date:   Sun, 04 Jun 2017 21:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com
Cc:     pshelar@....org, pshelar@...ira.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next] openvswitch: add macro MODULE_ALIAS_VPORT_TYPE for
 vport type alias

From: 张胜举 <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 09:10:22 +0800

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
>> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 4:13 AM
>> To: pshelar@....org
>> Cc: zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com; pshelar@...ira.com;
>> netdev@...r.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [net-next] openvswitch: add macro
>> MODULE_ALIAS_VPORT_TYPE for vport type alias
>> 
>> From: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>
>> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 22:58:22 -0700
>> 
>> > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Zhang Shengju
>> > <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com> wrote:
>> >> Add a new macro MODULE_ALIAS_VPORT_TYPE to unify and simplify the
>> >> declaration of vport type alias, and replace magic numbers with
>> >> symbolic constants.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  net/openvswitch/vport-geneve.c | 2 +-
>> >>  net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c    | 2 +-
>> >>  net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c  | 2 +-
>> >>  net/openvswitch/vport.h        | 3 +++
>> >>  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport-geneve.c
>> >> b/net/openvswitch/vport-geneve.c index 5aaf3ba..1c068d6 100644
>> >> --- a/net/openvswitch/vport-geneve.c
>> >> +++ b/net/openvswitch/vport-geneve.c
>> >> @@ -141,4 +141,4 @@ static void __exit ovs_geneve_tnl_exit(void)
>> >>
>> >>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("OVS: Geneve switching port");
>> >> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -MODULE_ALIAS("vport-type-5");
>> >> +MODULE_ALIAS_VPORT_TYPE(OVS_VPORT_TYPE_GENEVE);
>> >> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
>> >> b/net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c index 0e72d95..48a5852 100644
>> >> --- a/net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
>> >> +++ b/net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
>> >> @@ -113,4 +113,4 @@ static void __exit ovs_gre_tnl_exit(void)
>> >>
>> >>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("OVS: GRE switching port");
>> >> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -MODULE_ALIAS("vport-type-3");
>> >> +MODULE_ALIAS_VPORT_TYPE(OVS_VPORT_TYPE_GRE);
>> >
>> > This is user visible change. For example this is changing the gre
>> > module alias from "vport-type-3" to "vport-type-OVS_VPORT_TYPE_GRE".
>> > This could break userspace application.
>> 
>> Agreed, you really can't do this.
> 
> Hi David,
> Actually this change does not change module alias name. I use '__stringify'
> to 
> address this.  Please refer my previous reply.

Yep, I saw that, I waive my objection :-)