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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: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 17:19:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458508792.3317.16.camel@seering.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456447597.4577.49.camel@seering.org>

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 19:46 -0500, Adam Seering wrote:
> 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?
> 

I realize and appreciate that I'm not supposed to nag you folks for
feedback.  But I don't know how to proceed.  So, rather than nag you,
I've filed a bug:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115031

I've tested my patch; I believe it to be the simplest change that
resolves this bug.  I'm happy to write something else if it would be
cleaner and/or help others, but I would need a more-detailed
explanation of what you're looking for.

I've also filed a ticket downstream:  Red Hat appears to not build the
ipddp module with their stock kernel release, so their users don't hit
this bug.  But Ubuntu does build/ship ipddp; if they likewise didn't,
that would also solve my problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-wily/+bug/1559772

Adam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-20 21:20 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
2016-02-27  4:49     ` Adam Seering
2016-03-20 21:19     ` Adam Seering [this message]
  -- 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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