From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:02:08 -0800

On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:49:39 -0500 (EST)
David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:19:58 -0800

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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 <redacted>

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.

Ok, then I wonder why we support ID based lookups at all.