netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: psample: Introduce stubs to remove NIC driver dependency

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpWQe1W+x_bua+OfjTR-tCgFYgj_8=eKz7VJdKHPRKuMYw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:14:09 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Chris Mi <cmi@...dia.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, jiri@...dia.com,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: psample: Introduce stubs to remove NIC
 driver dependency

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 5:48 PM Chris Mi <cmi@...dia.com> wrote:
>
> In order to send sampled packets to userspace, NIC driver calls
> psample api directly. But it creates a hard dependency on module
> psample. Introduce psample_ops to remove the hard dependency.
> It is initialized when psample module is loaded and set to NULL
> when the module is unloaded.

Is it too crazy to just make CONFIG_PSAMPLE a bool so that it
won't be a module?

Thanks.