linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/9p: autoload transport modules

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Message-ID: <922a4843-c7b0-4cdc-b2a6-33bf089766e4@t-8ch.de>
Date:   Tue, 2 Nov 2021 11:59:32 +0100
From:   Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
To:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/9p: autoload transport modules

Hi,

On 2021-11-02 19:51+0900, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply
> 
> Thomas Weißschuh wrote on Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 03:46:11PM +0200:
> > Automatically load transport modules based on the trans= parameter
> > passed to mount.
> > The removes the requirement for the user to know which module to use.
> 
> This looks good to me, I'll test this briefly on differnet config (=y,
> =m) and submit to Linus this week for the next cycle.

Thanks. Could you also fix up the typo in the commit message when applying?
("The removes" -> "This removes")

> Makes me wonder why trans_fd is included in 9pnet and not in a 9pnet-fd
> or 9pnet-tcp module but that'll be for another time...

To prepare for the moment when those transport modules are split into their own
module(s), we could already add MODULE_ALIAS_9P() calls to net/9p/trans_fd.c.

Thomas