some questions on kern_linker and pre-loaded modules

2013-01-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
I. It seems that linker_preload checks a module for being a duplicate module only if the module has MDT_VERSION. This is probably designed to allow different version of the same module to co-exist (for some definition of co-exist)? But, OTOH, this doesn't work well if the module is version-less

Testing SIOCADDMULTI?

2013-01-26 Thread Tim Kientzle
My next TODO items for this network driver is to implement the SIOCADDMULTI and SIOCDELMULTI ioctls. I'm not quite sure what they do, though, and have no idea how to test them to see if they are working correctly. Any suggestions? Cheers, Tim ___ fre

Re: Testing SIOCADDMULTI?

2013-01-26 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Jan 26, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: > My next TODO items for this network driver is to implement > the SIOCADDMULTI and SIOCDELMULTI ioctls. Looking through other drivers (and net/if.c), I've managed to implement ADDMULTI by adding the multicast ethernet address to the list maintain