[PATCH net-next 4/6] net: geneve: remove unused geneve_dev_create_fb
From: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Date: 2026-08-04 18:21:18
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linux-kselftest, lkml
Subsystem:
networking drivers, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The only user was vport-geneve in openvswitch and now it is gone. This also removes the last exported function in geneve module, significantly reducing complexity of the locking analysis. Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> --- drivers/net/geneve.c | 49 -------------------------------------------- include/net/geneve.h | 5 ----- 2 files changed, 54 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/geneve.c b/drivers/net/geneve.c
index a6a8978e3b81..0ab729f055ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/geneve.c
+++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c@@ -2670,55 +2670,6 @@ 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, - .dualstack = 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 5c96827a487e..ba2c14d61e90 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 */
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