From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 03:06:13 +0200
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, at 02:27, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:19:41 +0200
>>
>> > This patchset removes the dependency of network drivers on vxlan or
>> > geneve, so those don't get autoloaded when the nic driver is loaded.
>> >
>> > Also audited the code such that vxlan_get_rx_port and geneve_get_rx_port
>> > are not called without rtnl lock.
>>
>> In net-next, the 'qed' driver has tunneling offload support too.
>> Don't you need to update this series to handle that driver as
>> well?
>
> I audited qede as well:
>
> qede calls {vxlan,geneve}_get_rx_port only from ndo_open which isn't
> reused anywhere else in the driver, only from ndo_open, which holds
> rtnl_lock also. Thus the driver is safe and doesn't need a change.
I'm talking about your final patches which elide the dependencies.
