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    vxlan: break dependency with netdev drivers · b7aade15
    Hannes Frederic Sowa authored
    Currently all drivers depend and autoload the vxlan module because how
    vxlan_get_rx_port is linked into them. Remove this dependency:
    
    By using a new event type in the netdevice notifier call chain we proxy
    the request from the drivers to flush and resetup the vxlan ports not
    directly via function call but by the already existing netdevice
    notifier call chain.
    
    I added a separate new event type, NETDEV_OFFLOAD_PUSH_VXLAN, to do so.
    We don't need to save those ids, as the event type field is an unsigned
    long and using specialized event types for this purpose seemed to be a
    more elegant way. This also comes in beneficial if in future we want to
    add offloading knobs for vxlan.
    
    Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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