Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: remove net-pf-16-proto-16-family-nl80211 module alias

[Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>]

Hi

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:36:17PM +0900, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > With the alias cfg80211 module is loaded on systems without the wireless
> > hardware when user-space use nl80211 to discover if there are wireless
> > devices, what is considered as resources wastage. On systems with
> > wireless hardware cfg80211 module will be loaded anyway.
> > 
> > Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > net/wireless/core.c | 1 -
> > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
> > index a4d2792..badcabe 100644
> > --- a/net/wireless/core.c
> > +++ b/net/wireless/core.c
> > @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
> > MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Berg");
> > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("wireless configuration support");
> > -MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(NL80211_GENL_NAME);
> 
> NAK.
> 
> We want to auto-load cfg80211 when userspace asked for nl80211 netlink family.

Could you elaborate more why?

Stanislaw