On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 5:41 AM Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 05:37:37PM -0500, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What's speacial about the "tcf- '' that makes it work > > better for filtering than existing "cls_" prefix? > > tcf-foo is an alias. > cls_foo is the canonical name of the kernel module. > > request_module() + blacklist (as described in modprobe.d(5)) works only > when calling with the alias. The actual string is not important, being > an alias is the crux. > Thanks for the explanation. > > What about actions (prefix "act_") etc? > > I focused only on "cls_" for the first iteration. Do you want me to look > at other analogous loads? Yes, look at act_ and sch_ cheers, jamal > Thanks, > Michal
