[LEDE-DEV] Difference between AutoLoad vs. AutoProbe for kernel modules?

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Actually,

> I think the problem with wireguard in github issue 3790 [1] is that
> wireguard requires NFPROTO_{IPV4,IPV6} "hashlimit" module and
> netfilter subsystem will try to load ipt_hashlimit and ip6t_hashlimit
> which are aliases of xt_hashlimit, but we have aliases along with
> other modinfoinfo stripped from kernel modules with patch
> 204-module_strip.patch.

If indeed the alises are being stripped from those modules, then the
kernel's auto module loader won't find them, and that would indeed be
a problem.