Re: Spawning modprobe for AX25?!

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:14:31 -0400


Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> said:

[...]

> The 2.1 socket code is modular enough that CONFIG_<type>=m is equivalent
> to CONFIG_<type>=n. I don't think that it would be worth the additional
> code and complexeties just to make it distingush between these two states
> for a protocol. It would be much better to just fix net-tools to check
> for the appropiate /proc/net files first before opening these sockets.

Just too bad they won't appear until after you modprobe(8) for them ;-)

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