On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:56:41PM +0200, Nir Muchtar wrote: > Do you mean adding this to ib_core? I'm not sure we want to > autoload ib_core whenever the userspace asks for "socket(PF_NETLINK, > SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_INFINIBAND)" What's wrong with receiving a > "protocol not supported" error? If ib_core is not loaded then > there's no data anyway. Am I missing other possible effects of > MODULE_ALIAS here?
It seems to be kernel policy to annotate this sort of autoload meta-data. If the module is demand loaded or not is a userspace choice. Apps using this should handle both cases. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
