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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net] core: Don't attempt to load the "" driver.
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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.