[PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: unexport ovs_vport_alloc/free

[PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: unexport ovs_vport_alloc/free

[Ilya Maximets]

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(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport.c b/net/openvswitch/vport.c
index 29ebeb164bdc..083f7a8d9d4e 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/vport.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/vport.c
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ struct vport *ovs_vport_alloc(int priv_size, const struct vport_ops *ops,
 	kfree(vport);
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ovs_vport_alloc);
 
 /**
  *	ovs_vport_free - uninitialize and free vport
@@ -178,7 +177,6 @@ void ovs_vport_free(struct vport *vport)
 	free_percpu(vport->upcall_stats);
 	kfree(vport);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ovs_vport_free);
 
 static struct vport_ops *ovs_vport_lookup(const struct vport_parms *parms)
 {
-- 
2.55.0

Re: [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: unexport ovs_vport_alloc/free

[Aaron Conole]

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>

Re: [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: unexport ovs_vport_alloc/free

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:20:06 +0200 you wrote:
> 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.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] net: openvswitch: unexport ovs_vport_alloc/free
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/9702af05a007

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