From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:43:11 +0200
> Hi David, > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, at 03:11, David Miller wrote: >> 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. > > could you look at this again? If you have further feedback I am happy to > incooperate those. Series applied, thanks Hannes.