Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] nstat: add sctp snmp support

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 12:48:45 -0700

On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 12:46:49 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Fri,  2 Sep 2016 15:12:38 +0800
> Hangbin Liu <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > SCTP module was not load by default. But this should be OK since we will not
> > load table if fdopen() failed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <[email-masked]>  
> 
> This seems like a bad idea for the normal distro user.
> If they run nstat command the SCTP kernel module would get loaded even
> if never used.
> 
> Makes more sense not to display SCTP statistics if it isn't loaded.
> 

Never mind, opening the proc file won't load SCTP kernel module.