netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ipip: add module alias for tunl0 tunnel device

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Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:27:28 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ipip: add module alias for tunl0 tunnel device

Le mardi 30 novembre 2010 à 08:08 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :

> If you run debian there is a list of aliases in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf
> that includes the ipip alias.
> 
> My patch provides same information from the kernel. In olden times,
> the kernel relied more on user space defined aliases, but in the modern
> era MODULE_ALIAS() is used to provide that information.
> 

Thanks for the clarification.

Running an old Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8)

# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 bnx2x
alias eth1 bnx2x
alias eth2 tg3
alias eth3 tg3

(No /etc/modprobe.d/ directory)

But I can see the alias in the '.dist' file

# grep ipip /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
alias tunl0 ipip

# mv /etc/modprobe.conf.dist /etc/modprobe.conf.dist.old
# ip tunnel add mode ipip
ioctl: No such device

Thanks !


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