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

From: Adam Seering <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:46:37 -0500

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 14:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Adam Seering <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:19:13 -0500
> 
> > 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
> > (so no "ipddp0" network interface is exposed).  This makes the
> "module
> > is not loaded" behavior match the "module was never compiled"
> behavior.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Seering <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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?