This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dm snapshot: add missing module aliases
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dm-snapshot-add-missing-module-aliases.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 23cb21092eb9dcec9d3604b68d95192b79915890 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 22:45:47 +0000
Subject: dm snapshot: add missing module aliases
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 23cb21092eb9dcec9d3604b68d95192b79915890 upstream.
Add module aliases so that autoloading works correctly if the user
tries to activate "snapshot-origin" or "snapshot-merge" targets.
Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/889973
Reported-by: Chao Yang <chyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -2303,3 +2303,5 @@ module_exit(dm_snapshot_exit);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DM_NAME " snapshot target");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Joe Thornber");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS("dm-snapshot-origin");
+MODULE_ALIAS("dm-snapshot-merge");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/dm-snapshot-add-missing-module-aliases.patch
queue-3.8/dm-do-not-replace-bioset-for-request-based-dm.patch
queue-3.8/dm-fix-truncated-status-strings.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html