netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a module

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Message-Id: <20150726.205742.539016799227504892.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:57:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, pshelar@...ira.com, dev@...nvswitch.org,
	tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a
 module

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:29:07 +0200

> With CONFIG_VXLAN=m and CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH=y, there was the following
> compilation error:
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   net/built-in.o: In function `vxlan_tnl_create':
>   .../net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c:322: undefined reference to `vxlan_dev_create'
>   make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> Fixes: 614732eaa12d ("openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Applied as a stop-gap measure to fix this, but this is a terrible
dependency.

There is no reason a user should have to know that without vxlan
they aren't able to turn on openvswitch.
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