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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a
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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:57:42 -0700 (PDT)
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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.