netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 net] core: Don't attempt to load the "" driver.

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Message-Id: <20140909.172410.519439746131615877.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:24:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	David.Laight@...LAB.COM
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net] core: Don't attempt to load the "" driver.

From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 13:23:33 +0000

> This whole 'try to load the module' path should be predicated on
> 'interface not found'.

And that's the first thing dev_load() does, it tries to look up the
device by name, and only does the module load attempt if that fails.

Nobody cares if the module load itself actually fails, dev_load()
returns void after all.
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