netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 04/15] bnxt: Replace ndo_add/del_vxlan_port with ndo_add/del_udp_enc

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:16:42 -0700
From:	Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>
Cc:	Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...hat.com>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
	Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@...gic.com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Dept-GELinuxNICDev@...gic.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 04/15] bnxt: Replace ndo_add/del_vxlan_port with ndo_add/del_udp_enc_port

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com> wrote:
>> This change replaces the network device operations for adding or removing a
>> VXLAN port with operations that are more generically defined to be used for
>> any UDP offload port but provide a type.  As such by just adding a line to
>> verify that the offload type if VXLAN we can maintain the same
>> functionality.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>
>
> It looks like bnxt actually has a hardcoded offload of the Geneve port
> rather than using the registration (maybe it predated it?).

It's not hardcoded.  The driver code just predated the ndo geneve calls.

>  It would
> be nice to incorporate that into your unified handler as well.
>
> I think you could actually just kill all of these
> CONFIG_VXLAN/CONFIG_GENEVE checks (across all the drivers, not just
> this one). They shouldn't be necessary any more now that there's no
> longer strong linkage to the tunnel drivers.

Agreed.