netdev - Re: [PATCH net,v4 1/4] net: openvswitch: rename flow_stats to sw_flow

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Date:   Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:58:53 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        pshelar@....org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net,v4 1/4] net: openvswitch: rename flow_stats to
 sw_flow_stats

Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 07:59:28PM CEST, pablo@...filter.org wrote:
>There is a flow_stats structure defined in include/net/flow_offload.h
>and a follow up patch adds #include <net/flow_offload.h> to
>net/sch_generic.h.
>
>This breaks compilation since OVS codebase includes net/sock.h which
>pulls in linux/filter.h which includes net/sch_generic.h.
>
>In file included from ./include/net/sch_generic.h:18:0,
>                 from ./include/linux/filter.h:25,
>                 from ./include/net/sock.h:59,
>                 from ./include/linux/tcp.h:19,
>                 from net/openvswitch/datapath.c:24
>
>This definition takes precedence to OVS since it is placed in the
>networking core, so rename flow_stats in OVS to sw_flow_stats since
>this structure is contained in the sw_flow object.
>
>Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>