netdev - Re: [net-next 03/10] vxlan: Remove vxlan_get_rx

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:57:20 -0700
From:	Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next 03/10] vxlan: Remove vxlan_get_rx_port()

You are right.  Thanks for pointing this out. I will swap it in the
next version.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com> wrote:
>>
>> Instead of specificly calling vxlan_get_rx_port(), Device driver
>> should now call udp_tunnel_get_rx_port() instead.  Making this change
>> to support future NICs and device drivers that may support more
>> UDP tunnel protocol offloads.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c      |    2 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c      |    2 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c   |    2 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c |    2 +-
>>  drivers/net/vxlan.c                              |   26
>> ----------------------
>>  include/net/vxlan.h                              |    7 ------
>>  6 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>
>
> If I am not mistaken I think this patch is incomplete.  There is nothing
> that is currently initializing the tunnel type for VXLAN until the next
> patch.  As such I believe this patch breaks the functionality.  You might
> want to consider swapping it with patch 4 in order to avoid that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
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