Re: Spawning modprobe for AX25?!

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:06:54 +0200

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On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:14:31AM +0200, Horst von Brand wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Good point. Then they should only open the sockets if the user requested
information from them.

-Andi

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