From: Adam Seering <adam@seering.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] appletalk: Pass IP-over-DDP packets through when 'ipddp0' interface is not present
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:46:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456447597.4577.49.camel@seering.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160225.143353.284231681606348501.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 14:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Adam Seering <adam@seering.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:19:13 -0500
>
> > Let userspace programs transmit and receive raw IP-over-DDP packets
> > with a kernel where "ipddp" was compiled as a module but is not
> loaded
> > (so no "ipddp0" network interface is exposed). This makes the
> "module
> > is not loaded" behavior match the "module was never compiled"
> behavior.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Seering <adam@seering.org>
>
> I think a better approache is to somehow autoload the module.
Could you elaborate? Specifically: the kernel currently suppresses
packets on behalf of the module even after the module is unloaded. How
would autoloading the module help with that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-26 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 14:19 [PATCH] appletalk: Pass IP-over-DDP packets through when 'ipddp0' interface is not present Adam Seering
2016-02-25 19:33 ` David Miller
2016-02-26 0:46 ` Adam Seering [this message]
2016-02-27 4:49 ` Adam Seering
2016-03-20 21:19 ` Adam Seering
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2016-01-15 4:40 Adam Seering
2016-01-18 0:25 ` David Miller
2016-01-18 1:16 ` Adam Seering
2016-01-18 5:04 ` David Miller
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