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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pshelar@nicira.com, dev@openvswitch.org,
	tgraf@suug.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a module
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:57:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150726.205742.539016799227504892.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437643747-22976-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:29:07 +0200

> With CONFIG_VXLAN=m and CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH=y, there was the following
> compilation error:
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   net/built-in.o: In function `vxlan_tnl_create':
>   .../net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c:322: undefined reference to `vxlan_dev_create'
>   make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
> Fixes: 614732eaa12d ("openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>

Applied as a stop-gap measure to fix this, but this is a terrible
dependency.

There is no reason a user should have to know that without vxlan
they aren't able to turn on openvswitch.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-27  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23  9:29 [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a module Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-23  9:52 ` Thomas Graf
2015-07-27  3:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-07-27  8:33   ` Thomas Graf

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