On 06/23/2011 01:30 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 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); diff --git a/fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c b/fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c index 70272d5..dd6a453 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c +++ b/fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c @@ -1065,5 +1065,7 @@ objlayout_exit(void) __func__); } +MODULE_ALIAS("nfs-layouttype4-2"); + module_init(objlayout_init); module_exit(objlayout_exit); --- nfs-layouttype4-1 nfs-layouttype4-2 ... Can we use a name here or it must be the number? Thanks Boaz > -- > 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 -- 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