[Bridge] [PATCH 01/31] bridge: Auto-load bridge module when socket opened.

David Miller
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:27:18 -0000

From: Scott James Remnant <scott at canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:40:10 +0000

> The bridge module is missing the net-pf-7 alias that would cause it to
> be auto-loaded when a socket of that type is opened.  This patch adds
> the alias.
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

Bridging has no sockets, so this patch won't do anything.

Did you verify that these changes actually do something?
Or did you blindly run around peppering source files with
these annotations?