ovs: Turn vports with dependencies into separate modules

The internal and netdev vport remain part of openvswitch.ko. Encap
vports including vxlan, gre, and geneve can be built as separate
modules and are loaded on demand. Modules can be unloaded after use.
Datapath ports keep a reference to the vport module during their
lifetime.

Allows to remove the error prone maintenance of the global list
vport_ops_list.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Thomas Graf 2014-10-22 17:29:06 +02:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent cf7b200386
commit 62b9c8d037
11 changed files with 199 additions and 68 deletions

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@ -41,4 +41,7 @@ netdev_vport_priv(const struct vport *vport)
const char *ovs_netdev_get_name(const struct vport *);
void ovs_netdev_detach_dev(struct vport *);
int __init ovs_netdev_init(void);
void ovs_netdev_exit(void);
#endif /* vport_netdev.h */