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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:33:52 +0200
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On 07/26/15 at 08:57pm, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

I'm working on a patch to re-enable this choice.