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From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade•com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat•com>
Cc: <davem@davemloft•net>, <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland•com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug•ch>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] lwtunnel: autoload of lwt modules
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:22:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C1FB30.8090005@brocade.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160215170232.5f73b111@griffin>

On 15/02/16 16:02, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:42:01 +0000, Robert Shearman wrote:
>> +static const char *lwtunnel_encap_str(enum lwtunnel_encap_types encap_type)
>> +{
>> +	switch (encap_type) {
>> +	case LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_MPLS:
>> +		return "LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_MPLS";
>> +	case LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_IP:
>> +		return "LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_IP";
>> +	case LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_ILA:
>> +		return "LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_ILA";
>> +	case LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_IP6:
>> +		return "LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_IP6";
>> +	case LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_NONE:
>> +	case __LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_MAX:
>> +		/* should not have got here */
>> +		break;
>> +	}
>> +	WARN_ON(1);
>> +	return "LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_NONE";
>> +}
>> +
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
>> +
>>   struct lwtunnel_state *lwtunnel_state_alloc(int encap_len)
>>   {
>>   	struct lwtunnel_state *lws;
>> @@ -85,6 +109,14 @@ int lwtunnel_build_state(struct net_device *dev, u16 encap_type,
>>   	ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>   	rcu_read_lock();
>>   	ops = rcu_dereference(lwtun_encaps[encap_type]);
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
>> +	if (!ops) {
>> +		rcu_read_unlock();
>> +		request_module("rtnl-lwt-%s", lwtunnel_encap_str(encap_type));
>
> Why the repeating of "lwt"/"LWTUNNEL" and the unnecessary "ENCAP"?
> Wouldn't be lwtunnel_encap_str returning just "MPLS" or "ILA" enough?
> I don't have any strong preference here, it just looks weird to me.
> Maybe there's a reason.

Yeah, it's the C preprocessor. MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LWT includes the string 
for the encap type in the module alias, and since the LWT encap types 
are defined as enums this is symbolic name. I can't see any way of 
getting the preprocessor to convert 
MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LWT(LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_MPLS) into "rtnl-lwt-MPLS", but I'm 
open to suggestions.

I could just drop the "lwt-" bit of the alias string given that it's 
included in the name of the enum values.

> Also, this doesn't affect IP lwtunnels, i.e. LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_IP and
> LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_IP6. Should we just return NULL from lwtunnel_encap_str
> in such cases (plus unknown encap_type) and WARN on the NULL here?

True, but I figured that it was cleaner for the lwtunnel infra to not 
assume whether how those modules are implemented. If you disagree, then 
I can change to doing as you suggest.

Thanks,
Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-15 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-15 15:42 [PATCH net-next 0/3] lwtunnel: autoload of lwt modules Robert Shearman
2016-02-15 15:42 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] " Robert Shearman
2016-02-15 16:02   ` Jiri Benc
2016-02-15 16:22     ` Robert Shearman [this message]
2016-02-15 16:32       ` Jiri Benc
2016-02-15 18:08         ` Robert Shearman
2016-02-15 21:33   ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-02-16 14:14     ` Robert Shearman
2016-02-15 15:42 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] mpls: autoload lwt module Robert Shearman
2016-02-15 15:42 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] ila: autoload module Robert Shearman
2016-02-19  9:43 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] lwtunnel: autoload of lwt modules Robert Shearman
2016-02-19  9:43   ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] " Robert Shearman
2016-02-19  9:43   ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] mpls: autoload lwt module Robert Shearman
2016-02-19  9:43   ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] ila: autoload module Robert Shearman
2016-02-22  3:00   ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] lwtunnel: autoload of lwt modules David Miller

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