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From: Adam Seering <adam@seering.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] appletalk: Pass IP-over-DDP packets through when 'ipddp0' interface is not present
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:46:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456447597.4577.49.camel@seering.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160225.143353.284231681606348501.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 14:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Adam Seering <adam@seering.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:19:13 -0500
> 
> > Let userspace programs transmit and receive raw IP-over-DDP packets
> > with a kernel where "ipddp" was compiled as a module but is not
> loaded
> > (so no "ipddp0" network interface is exposed).  This makes the
> "module
> > is not loaded" behavior match the "module was never compiled"
> behavior.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Seering <adam@seering.org>
> 
> I think a better approache is to somehow autoload the module.

Could you elaborate?  Specifically: the kernel currently suppresses
packets on behalf of the module even after the module is unloaded.  How
would autoloading the module help with that?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-26  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-23 14:19 [PATCH] appletalk: Pass IP-over-DDP packets through when 'ipddp0' interface is not present Adam Seering
2016-02-25 19:33 ` David Miller
2016-02-26  0:46   ` Adam Seering [this message]
2016-02-27  4:49     ` Adam Seering
2016-03-20 21:19     ` Adam Seering
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-01-15  4:40 Adam Seering
2016-01-18  0:25 ` David Miller
2016-01-18  1:16   ` Adam Seering
2016-01-18  5:04     ` David Miller

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