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

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 14:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:

From: Adam Seering <redacted>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:19:13 -0500

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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

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(so no "ipddp0" network interface is exposed).  This makes the

"module

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is not loaded" behavior match the "module was never compiled"

behavior.

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Signed-off-by: Adam Seering <redacted>

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

Could you elaborate?  Specifically: the kernel currently suppresses
packets on behalf of the module even after the module is unloaded.  How
would autoloading the module help with that?