> On Nov 9, 2020, at 4:10 PM, trondmy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> According to RFC5666, the correct netid for an IPv6 addressed RDMA
> transport is "rdma6", which we've supported as a mount option since
> Linux-4.7. The problem is when we try to load the module "xprtrdma6",
> that will fail, since there is no modulealias of that name.
Trying to wrap my head around this. Who is forming the legacy names
"xprtrdma6" and "svcrdma6" ?
The module name these days is "rpcrdma". Seems like you should fix
the code that is trying to load these by the wrong name rather than
adding more legacy names.
> Fixes: 181342c5ebe8 ("xprtrdma: Add rdma6 option to support NFS/RDMA IPv6")
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/module.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/module.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/module.c
> index 620327c01302..fb55983628b4 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/module.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/module.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Open Grid Computing and Network Appliance, Inc.");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RPC/RDMA Transport");
> MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
> MODULE_ALIAS("svcrdma");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("svcrdma6");
> MODULE_ALIAS("xprtrdma");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("xprtrdma6");
>
> static void __exit rpc_rdma_cleanup(void)
> {
> --
> 2.28.0
>
--
Chuck Lever
