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Message-ID: <20230713203324.GA338010@perftesting>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:33:24 -0400
From: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
nbd@...er.debian.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] nbd: automatically load module on genl access
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 09:29:35PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Add a module alias to nbd.ko that allows the generic netlink core to
> automatically load the module when netlink messages for nbd are
> received.
>
> This frees the user from manually having to load the module before using
> nbd functionality via netlink.
> If the system policy allows it this can even be used to load the nbd
> module from containers which would otherwise not have access to the
> necessary module files to do a normal "modprobe nbd".
>
> For example this avoids the following error when using nbd-client:
>
> $ nbd-client localhost 10809 /dev/nbd0
> ...
> Error: Couldn't resolve the nbd netlink family, make sure the nbd module is loaded and your nbd driver supports the netlink interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpadna.com>
Thanks,
Josef
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