From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Seering 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 Message-ID: <1456447597.4577.49.camel@seering.org> References: <1456237153.4577.35.camel@seering.org> <20160225.143353.284231681606348501.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from comomta-po-01v.sys.comcast.net ([96.114.154.250]:56095 "EHLO comomta-po-01v.sys.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751865AbcBZArD (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:47:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160225.143353.284231681606348501.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 14:33 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Adam Seering > 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 > > 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?