On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Thomas Graf <tg...@noironetworks.com> wrote:
> Upstream commit:
> The internal and netdev vport remain part of openvswitch.ko. Encap
> vports including vxlan, gre, and geneve can be built as separate
> modules and are loaded on demand. Modules can be unloaded after use.
> Datapath ports keep a reference to the vport module during their
> lifetime.
>
> Allows to remove the error prone maintenance of the global list
> vport_ops_list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@suug.ch>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
>
> Also folds in the follow-up commits 9ba559d9ca3 to turned the non-GPL
> symbol exports to GPL exports, and fa2d8ff4e35 which fixes a module
> reference release bug.
>
> Exports various backwards compat functions linked into the main
> openvswitch module as GPL symbols to ensure vport modules can use them.
>
> Some fiddling with the Makefile was needed to work around the fact
> that Makefile variables can't contain '-' characters needed to define
> 'vport-xxx' module sources. Also, Kbuild complains heavily if a
> $(module)-y = $(module).o is defined which is actually backed with a .c
> file of the same name. Therefore, a new $(build_multi_modules) variable
> is defined which lists all module which consist of more than one source
> file.
>
> Upstream: 62b9c8d0372 ("ovs: Turn vports with dependencies into separate
> modules")
> Upstream: 9ba559d9ca3 ("openvswitch: Export symbols as GPL symbols.")
> Upstream: fa2d8ff4e35 ("openvswitch: Return vport module ref before
> destruction")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@noironetworks.com>
Looks good. Thanks for back-porting the patch.
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
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