netdev - Re: [net-next 1/2] vxlan: Notify drivers for listening UDP port changes

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Message-ID: <kvk9um$j48$1@ger.gmane.org>
Date:	Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:47:35 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next  1/2] vxlan: Notify drivers for listening UDP port
 changes

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 at 04:46 GMT, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:
> From: Joseph Gasparakis <joseph.gasparakis@...el.com>
>
> This patch adds two more ndo ops: ndo_add_rx_vxlan_port() and
> ndo_del_rx_vxlan_port().
>
> Drivers can get notifications through the above functions about changes
> of the UDP listening port of VXLAN. Also, when physical ports come up,
> now they can call vxlan_get_rx_port() in order to obtain the port number(s)
> of the existing VXLAN interface in case they already up before them.
>
> This information about the listening UDP port would be used for VXLAN
> related offloads.
>

Since this is a notification, how about adding a new NETDEV_* event
rather than adding two new ndo_* ops?

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