On Sep 08, Lucas De Marchi [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Lubomir Rintel [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Some network devices have an awful habit of creating interfaces when loaded,
despite not asked for. Worse even, they do so while being autoloaded due to an
attempt to create a device via netlink:

I agree that this behaviour by dummy, bonding, etc is unfortunate
and annoying; however, I do not believe that user space tools
maintainers overriding the decisions of kernel maintainers will help
creating an healty environment.

As the Debian kmod maintainer I would also be seriously concerned about
carrying this change since it would break existing configurations on
upgrades.

It seems you forgot to follow up on the feedback I gave last time and
asked for opinions.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/336

I think that this would create excessive complexity and force everybody 
to learn the semantics of this new directive.
If you really believe that copying the whole file would be bad then just 
split the directives in multiple files.

-- 
ciao,
Marco