From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
To: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
dev@openvswitch.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: unexport ovs_vport_alloc/free
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:16:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7twltue0d8.fsf@aconole-thinkpadt14gen4.rmtusnh.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260812122007.457136-1-i.maximets@ovn.org> (Ilya Maximets's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:20:06 +0200")
Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> writes:
> Since removal of the legacy tunnel port types, there are no more
> users for these functions outside the main openvswitch module.
> Functions to register vport_ops are also not exported. Allocating
> vports without operations doesn't make a lot of sense.
>
> Highlighted by Sashiko as a follow up to the removal of the module
> infrastructure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
> ---
> net/openvswitch/vport.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-13 11:16 UTC|newest]
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