netdev - Re: [PATCH] appletalk: Pass IP-over-DDP packets through when 'ipddp0' interface is not present

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Message-Id: <20160225.143353.284231681606348501.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:33:53 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	adam@...ring.org
Cc:	acme@...stprotocols.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] appletalk: Pass IP-over-DDP packets through when
 'ipddp0' interface is not present

From: Adam Seering <adam@...ring.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:19:13 -0500

> Let userspace programs transmit and receive raw IP-over-DDP packets
> with a kernel where "ipddp" was compiled as a module but is not loaded
> (so no "ipddp0" network interface is exposed).  This makes the "module
> is not loaded" behavior match the "module was never compiled" behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Seering <adam@...ring.org>

I think a better approache is to somehow autoload the module.