netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: Re-add CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:00:35 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: Re-add CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH_VXLAN

On 07/29/15 at 12:05pm, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> > This readds the config option CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH_VXLAN to avoid a
> > hard dependency of OVS on VXLAN. It moves the VXLAN config compat
> > code to vport-vxlan.c and allows compliation as a module.
> >
> > Fixes: 614732eaa12d ("openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device")
> > Fixes: 2661371ace96 ("openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a module")
> > Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
> > Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> 
> Looks good.
> Once userspace vswitchd can directly configures VXLAN device, we can
> deprecate this vport-vxlan module.
> 
> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>

Agreed. We should do that once GRE and Geneve are converted as well.
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