On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 04:11:17PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:06:14PM +0200, Tigran Mkrtchyan wrote: > > I recall a discussion at connectaton 2010, where Peter Staubach from > > RedHat ( at that time ) > > requested a way to disable pNFS without rebuilding the kernel. > > > > Probably that's why autoload is not implemented. > > Well, autoload *is* implemented, you just have to add an alias command > to modprobe.conf before it'll work. > > And if we embed the alias in the module instead, it will still be > possible to disable autloading by adding a "backlist <modulename>" to > modproble.conf. > > So I don't *think* that's the issue, unless I've missed something. So can we just do this? (Untested.) --b. commit 8b3065071b5469c428d70052c80f1df3cb398da6 Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 23 16:15:39 2011 -0400 pnfs: simplify pnfs files module autoloading Embed the necessary alias into the module rather than waiting for someone to add it to /etc/modprobe.conf Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c index 4269088..eb65f82 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c @@ -896,5 +896,7 @@ static void __exit nfs4filelayout_exit(void) pnfs_unregister_layoutdriver(&filelayout_type); } +MODULE_ALIAS("nfs-layouttype4-1"); + module_init(nfs4filelayout_init); module_exit(nfs4filelayout_exit); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html