From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org,
saeedm@nvidia.com, leon@kernel.org, tariqt@nvidia.com,
mbloch@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] eth: mlx5: remove Kconfig co-dependency with VXLAN
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:32:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aK-xs-EwJ15kfuqu@x130> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250827234319.3504852-1-kuba@kernel.org>
On 27 Aug 16:43, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>mlx5 has a Kconfig co-dependency on VXLAN, even tho it doesn't
>call any VXLAN function (unlike mlxsw). Perhaps this dates back
>to very old days when tunnel ports were fetched directly from
>VXLAN.
>
>Remove the dependency to allow MLX5=y + VXLAN=m kernel configs.
>But still avoid compiling in the lib/vxlan code if VXLAN=n.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Nice improvement, Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-28 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-27 23:43 [PATCH net-next] eth: mlx5: remove Kconfig co-dependency with VXLAN Jakub Kicinski
2025-08-28 1:32 ` Saeed Mahameed [this message]
2025-08-29 0:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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