Hi
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:36:17PM +0900, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > With the alias cfg80211 module is loaded on systems without the wireless
> > hardware when user-space use nl80211 to discover if there are wireless
> > devices, what is considered as resources wastage. On systems with
> > wireless hardware cfg80211 module will be loaded anyway.
> >
> > Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/wireless/core.c | 1 -
> > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
> > index a4d2792..badcabe 100644
> > --- a/net/wireless/core.c
> > +++ b/net/wireless/core.c
> > @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
> > MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Berg");
> > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("wireless configuration support");
> > -MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(NL80211_GENL_NAME);
>
> NAK.
>
> We want to auto-load cfg80211 when userspace asked for nl80211 netlink family.
Could you elaborate more why?
Stanislaw
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