Re: [PATCH] net/sched: cls: Load net classifier modules via alias

[Michal Koutný]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 05:37:37PM -0500, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What's speacial about the "tcf- '' that makes it work
> better for filtering than existing "cls_" prefix?

tcf-foo is an alias.
cls_foo is the canonical name of the kernel module.

request_module() + blacklist (as described in modprobe.d(5)) works only
when calling with the alias. The actual string is not important, being
an alias is the crux.

> What about actions (prefix "act_") etc?

I focused only on "cls_" for the first iteration. Do you want me to look
at other analogous loads?

Thanks,
Michal

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