Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: make real_lookup do dentry revalidation with i_mutex held

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Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> We probably have to accept that people  doing insmod with a specific
> path are going to have a problem and they shouldn't use that method
> anyway. But, AFAICS using a MODULE_ALIAS() in the kernel module will
> allow for the name change but doesn't seem to take account of the
> directory name change. Is that correct?
> 

I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.  Generally the directory a
module appears in doesn't matter.

> There are those that may have an alias in the module-init-tools
> configuration as well. But we need get rid of that practice as well as,
> for a long time now, the alias hasn't been needed.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts how we might better handle these difficulties?

I suspect the MODULE_ALIAS should just do it.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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