Re: [PATCH] net/sched: cls: Load net classifier modules via alias

[Jamal Hadi Salim]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 5:41 AM Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 05:37:37PM -0500, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What's speacial about the "tcf- '' that makes it work
> > better for filtering than existing "cls_" prefix?
>
> tcf-foo is an alias.
> cls_foo is the canonical name of the kernel module.
>
> request_module() + blacklist (as described in modprobe.d(5)) works only
> when calling with the alias. The actual string is not important, being
> an alias is the crux.
>

Thanks for the explanation.

> > What about actions (prefix "act_") etc?
>
> I focused only on "cls_" for the first iteration. Do you want me to look
> at other analogous loads?

Yes, look at act_ and sch_

cheers,
jamal
> Thanks,
> Michal