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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aconole-thinkpadt14gen4.rmtusnh.csb ([216.212.25.12]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-936c191baafsm125635485a.5.2026.08.13.04.16.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:16:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Aaron Conole To: Ilya Maximets Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eelco Chaudron , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , dev@openvswitch.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: unexport ovs_vport_alloc/free In-Reply-To: <20260812122007.457136-1-i.maximets@ovn.org> (Ilya Maximets's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:20:06 +0200") References: <20260812122007.457136-1-i.maximets@ovn.org> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:16:51 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Ilya Maximets 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 > --- > net/openvswitch/vport.c | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole