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net modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Dyas)
Tue Mar 19 12:57:23 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 12:31:29 EST
From: Tom Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Unless someone complains, I am going to merge Jim Freeman's IPX module
patch and my AppleTalk module patch (a later one sent to Alan but not
this list) together into one nice big happy patch.
Keeping Bjorn's comments on modules in mind, I am also going to move
the networking symbols in linux/kernel/ksyms.c to the relevant
portions of the networking tree (sock_init(), etc.).
I am also going to add a call to request_module() in sys_socket() if
kerneld support is enabled so that the protocol family modules can be
autoloaded. It would request a module name such as "net-pf-2" to get
the protocol family associated with 2.
Expect a patch against 1.3.76 later tonight.
Tom
