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Message-Id: <1595835559-2797-1-git-send-email-martinvarghesenokia@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:09:19 +0530
From:   Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     Martin Varghese <martin.varghese@...ia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: Removed the device type check to add mpls support for devices

From: Martin Varghese <martin.varghese@...ia.com>

MPLS has no dependency with the device type of underlying devices.
Hence the device type check to add mpls support for devices can be
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <martin.varghese@...ia.com>
---
 net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 17 +++--------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
index fd30ea61336e..6fdd0c9f865a 100644
--- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
+++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
@@ -1584,21 +1584,10 @@ static int mpls_dev_notify(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
 	unsigned int flags;
 
 	if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
+		mdev = mpls_add_dev(dev);
+		if (IS_ERR(mdev))
+			return notifier_from_errno(PTR_ERR(mdev));
 
-		/* For now just support Ethernet, IPGRE, IP6GRE, SIT and
-		 * IPIP devices
-		 */
-		if (dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER ||
-		    dev->type == ARPHRD_LOOPBACK ||
-		    dev->type == ARPHRD_IPGRE ||
-		    dev->type == ARPHRD_IP6GRE ||
-		    dev->type == ARPHRD_SIT ||
-		    dev->type == ARPHRD_TUNNEL ||
-		    dev->type == ARPHRD_TUNNEL6) {
-			mdev = mpls_add_dev(dev);
-			if (IS_ERR(mdev))
-				return notifier_from_errno(PTR_ERR(mdev));
-		}
 		return NOTIFY_OK;
 	}
 
-- 
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