[2135] in linux-net channel archive
Re: modularizing some of the net code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Mar 18 05:51:32 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: smurf@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:20:40 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <96Mar16.105648+0100met_dst.2193-28937+15@work.smurf.noris.de> from "Matthias Urlichs" at Mar 14, 96 10:36:38 pm
> If you remove an interface, all the sockets are "removed" from the interface
> as well (they'll have to find a different route next time you send
> something on them). This code already is in the kernel and seems to work;
> my ISDN driver (not the one in the current 1.3 kernel... ;-) uses this
> feature.
If there is a socket open at all the module is needed, even if the socket
is just open for configuration. Similarly if the interfaces are configured
we need to keep the module as we are expecting to in interact using this
protocol.
Alan
