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Re: modules and network protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bjorn Ekwall)
Tue Feb 7 19:39:47 1995
From: bj0rn@blox.se (Bjorn Ekwall)
To: jmorriso@bogomips.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 00:28:41 +0100 (CET)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0rbu24-0004gTC@bogomips.ee.ubc.ca> from "John Paul Morrison" at Feb 7, 95 09:48:56 am
> Are loadable modules for network protocols possible in 1.1.X - 1.2 or
> will have to wait for 1.3? ie. to register a new protocol on top of IP
> (IPPROTO_FOOBAR), or to make IPX a loadable module, or tunnel IPX over
> IP etc.
>
> Bjorn? Alan?
I'd say that the idea is not completely farfetched :-)
I had that in mind when I implemented the support for stacked modules
last summer. Actually, that was the thought that triggered me...
But then of course, that was the easy part, as Alan will show us (soon?) :-)
Then one only has to decide what module should be the base module,
so that the head of the device list will be put in the right place.
Piece of cake... :-)
It is definitely a 1.3 thing, although the function "register_symtab()"
is already in place. I'm sure that it will be very useful...
Bjorn
