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From: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
	Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
	Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>,
	Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>,
	Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>,
	Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Subject: [RFC net-next 4/6] net: geneve: remove unused geneve_dev_create_fb
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 20:35:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513183559.2141010-5-i.maximets@ovn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260513183559.2141010-1-i.maximets@ovn.org>

The only user was vport-geneve in openvswitch and now it is gone.

Note: since it's an exported symbol, there is a possibility that some
out-of-tree module is using it.  So, alternative is to deprecate it
instead by adding a warning if it is ever called.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
---
 drivers/net/geneve.c | 48 --------------------------------------------
 include/net/geneve.h |  5 -----
 2 files changed, 53 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/geneve.c b/drivers/net/geneve.c
index b36fad8337245..153b15e4ef569 100644
--- a/drivers/net/geneve.c
+++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c
@@ -2364,54 +2364,6 @@ static struct rtnl_link_ops geneve_link_ops __read_mostly = {
 	.fill_info	= geneve_fill_info,
 };
 
-struct net_device *geneve_dev_create_fb(struct net *net, const char *name,
-					u8 name_assign_type, u16 dst_port)
-{
-	struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_MAX + 1];
-	struct net_device *dev;
-	LIST_HEAD(list_kill);
-	int err;
-	struct geneve_config cfg = {
-		.df = GENEVE_DF_UNSET,
-		.use_udp6_rx_checksums = true,
-		.ttl_inherit = false,
-		.collect_md = true,
-		.port_min = 1,
-		.port_max = USHRT_MAX,
-	};
-
-	memset(tb, 0, sizeof(tb));
-	dev = rtnl_create_link(net, name, name_assign_type,
-			       &geneve_link_ops, tb, NULL);
-	if (IS_ERR(dev))
-		return dev;
-
-	init_tnl_info(&cfg.info, dst_port);
-	err = geneve_configure(net, dev, NULL, &cfg);
-	if (err) {
-		free_netdev(dev);
-		return ERR_PTR(err);
-	}
-
-	/* openvswitch users expect packet sizes to be unrestricted,
-	 * so set the largest MTU we can.
-	 */
-	err = geneve_change_mtu(dev, IP_MAX_MTU);
-	if (err)
-		goto err;
-
-	err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, NULL, 0, NULL);
-	if (err < 0)
-		goto err;
-
-	return dev;
-err:
-	geneve_dellink(dev, &list_kill);
-	unregister_netdevice_many(&list_kill);
-	return ERR_PTR(err);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(geneve_dev_create_fb);
-
 static int geneve_netdevice_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
 				  unsigned long event, void *ptr)
 {
diff --git a/include/net/geneve.h b/include/net/geneve.h
index 5c96827a487e7..ba2c14d61e904 100644
--- a/include/net/geneve.h
+++ b/include/net/geneve.h
@@ -68,9 +68,4 @@ static inline bool netif_is_geneve(const struct net_device *dev)
 	       !strcmp(dev->rtnl_link_ops->kind, "geneve");
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_INET
-struct net_device *geneve_dev_create_fb(struct net *net, const char *name,
-					u8 name_assign_type, u16 dst_port);
-#endif /*ifdef CONFIG_INET */
-
 #endif /*ifdef__NET_GENEVE_H */
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-13 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-13 18:35 [RFC net-next 0/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel ports Ilya Maximets
2026-05-13 18:35 ` [RFC net-next 1/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel types Ilya Maximets
2026-05-13 18:35 ` [RFC net-next 2/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for vport options Ilya Maximets
2026-05-13 18:35 ` [RFC net-next 3/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for separate modules Ilya Maximets
2026-05-13 18:35 ` Ilya Maximets [this message]
2026-05-13 18:35 ` [RFC net-next 5/6] net: gre: remove unused gretap_fb_dev_create Ilya Maximets
2026-05-13 18:35 ` [RFC net-next 6/6] net: vxlan: remove unused vxlan_dev_create Ilya Maximets

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