From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] drop_monitor: convert to modular building Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 07:29:20 +0200 Message-ID: <1338355760.2760.8.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1337178426-2470-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <1337285040-20848-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <20120517.160937.586334759945738635.davem@davemloft.net> <20120517202152.GB19321@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <1337691919.3361.189.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20120529193348.GB9258@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bhutchings@solarflare.com To: Neil Horman Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:43700 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753289Ab2E3F3Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2012 01:29:25 -0400 Received: by weyu7 with SMTP id u7so3094755wey.19 for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 22:29:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120529193348.GB9258@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 15:33 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > Eric, > Just FYI, I sent a series upstream to implement autoloading of generic > netlink families. Please be awarem, that I've tested these with a hacked > version of dropwatch, and it works great, but with the normal version of > dropwatch, the drop_monitor module still doesn't autoload. This is due to libnl > not explicitly requesting a family when genl_ctrl_family_resolve is called. > Instead of trying to load the module, it dumps the existing registered families > via a NLM_F_DUMP message. I'm working on updating libnl to correct this > currently and will cc you on the patch. Excellent, thanks Neil