From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756196AbaEOVcJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2014 17:32:09 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:41626 "EHLO mail-pa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752807AbaEOVcF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2014 17:32:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 14:32:02 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Tom Gundersen Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jmorris@namei.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tunnels - enable module autoloading Message-ID: <20140515143202.53ca8033@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> In-Reply-To: <1399970908-9973-1-git-send-email-teg@jklm.no> References: <1399970908-9973-1-git-send-email-teg@jklm.no> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 13 May 2014 10:48:28 +0200 Tom Gundersen wrote: > Enable the module alias hookup to allow tunnel modules to be autoloaded on demand. > > This is in line with how most other netdev kinds work, and will allow userspace > to create tunnels without having CAP_SYS_MODULE. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen > Tested-by: Susant Sahani > --- > net/ipv4/ipip.c | 1 + > net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 1 + > net/ipv6/sit.c | 1 + > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+) But tunnel modules are autoloaded now. If I create a tunnel with ip tunnel based on the existing MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV().