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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-03-10 14:00:44 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-03-10 14:00:44 -0800 |
| commit | bef6e7e76868ab454d5e83635a4a7a1961c74fb5 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a7417b9dde942cc71f87c02688c6ac6b0e57a72 /net/core | |
| parent | dcbcdf22f500ac6e4ec06485341024739b9dc241 (diff) | |
| parent | 9179746652faf0aba07b8b7f770dcf29892a24c6 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 8ae6631abcc2..6561021d22d1 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1114,13 +1114,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_bonding_change); void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name) { struct net_device *dev; + int no_module; rcu_read_lock(); dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, name); rcu_read_unlock(); - if (!dev && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - request_module("%s", name); + no_module = !dev; + if (no_module && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + no_module = request_module("netdev-%s", name); + if (no_module && capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) { + if (!request_module("%s", name)) + pr_err("Loading kernel module for a network device " +"with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-%s " +"instead\n", name); + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_load); |