netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/6] Phonet: transport protocol auto-loading

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Message-Id: <200810031649.12415.remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:49:12 +0300
From:	"Rémi Denis-Courmont" 
	<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
To:	"ext Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Phonet: transport protocol auto-loading

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 15:45:43 ext Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, you wrote:
> I wonder if we shouldn't have:
>
> net_pf_request_module(PF_PHONET, protocol)
>
> [acme@...pio linux-2.6]$ grep "net-pf-%d-proto-%d" net/*/*.c
> net/ipv4/af_inet.c: request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-type-%d",
> net/ipv4/af_inet.c: request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d",
> net/ipv4/inet_diag.c: request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-type-%d",
> PF_NETLINK, net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:
> request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-type-%d",
> net/ipv6/af_inet6.c: request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d",
> net/netlink/af_netlink.c: request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d", PF_NETLINK,
> protocol);
> [acme@...pio linux-2.6]$ 
>
> Nah, perhaps not...

Looking at it, I could not find a "vrequest_module", which seems to preclude a 
functional implementation?? Not sure if a macro makes much sense here.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Maemo Software, Nokia Devices R&D
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