linux-kernel - Re: [ 042/108] NFS: Alias the nfs module to nfs4

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Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:24:08 +0000
From:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Schumaker, Bryan" <Bryan.Schumaker@...app.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [ 042/108] NFS: Alias the nfs module to nfs4

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@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.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@...app.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
> > [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.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@...app.com
www.netapp.com