RE: [dm-devel] path selector question

[Brad Johnson <bjohnson proficientsolutionsinc com>]

See, I knew it was something simple. It's just a matter of naming the
module exactly the same as what is in the configuration file.

Thank you very much.
Regards,
Brad Johnson

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:15 -0500, egoggin emc com wrote:
> The path selector and hardware handler dm-multipath modules
> are loaded using module automatic loading enabled by the
> kernel's "CONFIG_KMOD" define.  Check out the calls
> to request_module from both dm_get_path_selector and
> dm_get_hw_handler respectively.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dm-devel-bounces redhat com 
> > [mailto:dm-devel-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Brad Johnson
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:41 AM
> > To: dm-devel redhat com
> > Subject: [dm-devel] path selector question
> > 
> > I am in the process of adding one or more new path selector 
> > types to the
> > device-mapper. While the dm-round-robin module gets 
> > automatically loaded
> > when multipath is started, my new module does not (I have to manually
> > add it with modprobe). I know there are many ways I can have this done
> > automatically, such as adding my own init script. But I am 
> > very curious
> > how the round-robin module is getting automatically loaded. I have
> > grepped through all the source code for multipath-tools and device-
> > mapper, as well as the config files for the tools. And while 
> > it might be
> > obvious how this is happening, I can't see it.
> > Any help with this will be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Brad Johnson
> > 
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