netdev - Re: why is it not allowed to add a new socket protocol family as an external module?

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:05:02 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	chris.friesen@...band.com
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why is it not allowed to add a new socket protocol family as
 an external module?

From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:44:50 -0600

> On 02/20/2013 05:23 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:56:13 -0600
>> Chris Friesen<chris.friesen@...band.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering why the kernel doesn't allow a new network
>>> protocol
>>> family to be loaded as as a kernel module built outside the kernel
>>> source tree.
> 
>> If you want an answer, to the question, use a tool like cscope and
>> learn to read the kernel code. There are several tables of pointers
>> sized by NPROTO.
> 
> That's a bit insulting, don't you think?

Absolutely not insulting at all.

The list is _NOT_ a place to go when you're just too damn lazy to take
the 10 seconds it would have taken to answer your question with a
quick NPROTO grep on the kernel sources.

Stephen's response to you was therefore %100 appropriate, and I would
have told you likewise if I had been the first to respond.

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