Re: Automatically load modules in iptables-save

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Here is a reworked version that also adds the missing IPv6
> and manpage bits, pullable from the usual place at
> 
>  git://dev.medozas.de/iptables master
> 
> ---8<---
> iptables-save: module loading corrections
> 
> 1. Ignore the absence of /proc/net/ip_tables_names, which happens
> when x_tables.ko is not loaded. This is equivalent to having
> x_tables.ko, but no tabe modules, loaded. As such, success should
> be returned.
> 
> 2. Load table when explicitly requested by the -t option. Users might
> expect "*foo" etc. to be output when `iptables-save -t foo` is
> executed. So do autoload x_tables.ko and the table in this case.
> 
> *. Do this for both iptables-save and ip6tables-save, and adjust
> the manpages for the new -M (modprobe program location) option that
> is introduced.
> 
> Based upon a patch by Soren Hansen.

Looks good, thanks Jan. Pulled and pushed out.