From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net] core: Don't attempt to load the "" driver.
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:24:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140909.172410.519439746131615877.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1748BC57@AcuExch.aculab.com>
From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 13:23:33 +0000
> This whole 'try to load the module' path should be predicated on
> 'interface not found'.
And that's the first thing dev_load() does, it tries to look up the
device by name, and only does the module load attempt if that fails.
Nobody cares if the module load itself actually fails, dev_load()
returns void after all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-10 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-02 13:48 [PATCH net] core: Don't attempt to load the "" driver David Laight
2014-09-02 18:25 ` Cong Wang
2014-09-03 9:02 ` David Laight
2014-09-03 17:02 ` Cong Wang
2014-09-03 18:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-09-02 21:03 ` David Miller
2014-09-03 8:55 ` [PATCH V2 " David Laight
2014-09-05 21:32 ` David Miller
2014-09-08 13:23 ` David Laight
2014-09-10 0:24 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-09-10 8:50 ` David Laight
2014-09-10 20:06 ` David Miller
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