netdev - Re: [PATCH] genetlink: add auto module loading

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Message-ID: <20111228110208.5f6de3d8@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:02:08 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genetlink: add auto module loading

On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:49:39 -0500 (EST)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:19:58 -0800
> 
> > When testing L2TP support, I discovered that the l2tp module is not autoloaded
> > as are other netlink interfaces. There is because of lack of hook in genetlink to call
> > request_module and load the module.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> Applied, but for completeness we should probably also handle the "by ID" case right
> above this code block too.
> 
> Could you please submit a patch for that?
> 
> Thanks.

There is no point really. All the existing drivers,
use GENL_ID_GENERATE which generates the ID when they are loaded.
Chicken and egg principle.
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