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SubjectRe: [ 042/108] NFS: Alias the nfs module to nfs4
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On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 21:08 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >
> > 3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > commit 425e776d93a7a5070b77d4f458a5bab0f924652c upstream.
> >
> > This allows distros to remove the line from their modprobe
> > configuration.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
> > [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Could someone elaborate why this is acceptable now, while it wasn't
> during the timeframe I sent an identical patch months ago?
>
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1204.3/02064.html
>
> We had some trouble in Fedora 17 because of this and would up with
> patches to nfs-utils because the modalias was NAKed. If we're bringing
> it into stable (and upstream) at this point, it would be good to know
> what changed so I can go and undo what we did because I was told no.
>
> Please don't get me wrong, I'm all for simplicity. I'm just perhaps
> so simple that the brief changelog confuses me because it doesn't
> actually describe why the original solution wasn't followed up on.

Linux-3.6 converts NFSv2/v3/v4 into modules, and so modprobe.conf
entries of the form

alias nfs4 nfs

will now fail to ensure that 'mount -t nfs4 ...' works. In order to
facilitate the task for the distros when dealing with kernels >= 3.5.x,
we've added the automatic module alias so that they can remove the
hard-coded aliases in modprobe.conf while remaining backward-compatible.

--
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
www.netapp.com
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