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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ipip: add module alias for tunl0 tunnel device
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:27:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291134448.2904.133.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101130080842.685e0b70@nehalam>

Le mardi 30 novembre 2010 à 08:08 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :

> If you run debian there is a list of aliases in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf
> that includes the ipip alias.
> 
> My patch provides same information from the kernel. In olden times,
> the kernel relied more on user space defined aliases, but in the modern
> era MODULE_ALIAS() is used to provide that information.
> 

Thanks for the clarification.

Running an old Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8)

# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 bnx2x
alias eth1 bnx2x
alias eth2 tg3
alias eth3 tg3

(No /etc/modprobe.d/ directory)

But I can see the alias in the '.dist' file

# grep ipip /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
alias tunl0 ipip

# mv /etc/modprobe.conf.dist /etc/modprobe.conf.dist.old
# ip tunnel add mode ipip
ioctl: No such device

Thanks !



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-30 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29 19:47 [PATCH 0/3] Tunneling minor patches Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-29 19:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] gre: minor cleanups Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-29 19:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] gre: add module alias for gre0 tunnel device Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-29 19:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] ipip: add module alias for tunl0 " Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-30  7:19   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-30  7:55     ` Changli Gao
2010-11-30  8:21       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-30 16:08         ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-30 16:27           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-12-01 20:52 ` [PATCH 0/3] Tunneling minor patches David Miller

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