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.

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