From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] genetlink: add auto module loading
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:19:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111228101958.2326b7cc@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
When testing L2TP support, I discovered that the l2tp module is not autoloaded
as are other netlink interfaces. There is because of lack of hook in genetlink to call
request_module and load the module.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c 2011-12-24 11:13:44.373214171 -0800
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c 2011-12-24 11:13:59.361360729 -0800
@@ -792,6 +792,15 @@ static int ctrl_getfamily(struct sk_buff
name = nla_data(info->attrs[CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME]);
res = genl_family_find_byname(name);
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+ if (res == NULL) {
+ genl_unlock();
+ request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-type-%s",
+ PF_NETLINK, NETLINK_GENERIC, name);
+ genl_lock();
+ res = genl_family_find_byname(name);
+ }
+#endif
err = -ENOENT;
}
next reply other threads:[~2011-12-28 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-28 18:19 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-12-28 18:49 ` [PATCH] genetlink: add auto module loading David Miller
2011-12-28 19:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-28 19:03 ` David Miller
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