From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] appletalk: Pass IP-over-DDP packets through when 'ipddp0' interface is not present Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:33:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20160225.143353.284231681606348501.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1456237153.4577.35.camel@seering.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: adam@seering.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:44907 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933579AbcBYTd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:33:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1456237153.4577.35.camel@seering.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Adam Seering 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 I think a better approache is to somehow autoload the module.