netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] nstat: add sctp snmp support

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Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2016 12:46:49 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] nstat: add sctp snmp support

On Fri,  2 Sep 2016 15:12:38 +0800
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com> wrote:

> SCTP module was not load by default. But this should be OK since we will not
> load table if fdopen() failed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>

This seems like a bad idea for the normal distro user.
If they run nstat command the SCTP kernel module would get loaded even
if never used.

Makes more sense not to display SCTP statistics if it isn't loaded.