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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] ppp: define reusable device creation functions
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 17:30:01 -0700
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	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
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On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 23:14:56 +0200
Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:28:32AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 02:56:29 +0200
> > Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> wrote:
> > 
> > > Move PPP device initialisation and registration out of
> > > ppp_create_interface().
> > > This prepares code for device registration with rtnetlink.
> > > 
> > 
> > Does PPP module autoload correctly based on the netlink attributes?
> > 
> Patch #6 has MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("ppp"). This works fine for
> auto-loading ppp_generic when creating a PPP device with rtnetlink.
> Is there anything else required?
> 

That should be enough.