Re: [dm-devel] add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading

[Luca Berra <bluca comedia it>]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:51:49PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 20:23, Alasdair G Kergon <agk redhat com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:55:21PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > >> On my box without this patch:
> > > >>   dmsetup version
> > > >>   Library version:   1.02.42 (2010-01-14)
> > > >>   /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
> > > >>   Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
> > > >>   Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
> >
> > (Curiously this is not an issue I remember anyone raising with me as a problem
> > before.)
I am fairly sure i did report that, i even tried moving the module
loading framework from lvm2 to device mapper, but the resulting code
sucked too much to submit, the idea was to load device-mapper module,
and all target modules on first use.

> Because distros go the easy and stupid way and just load everything
> they configured as a module. :) That is something to solve, or at
> least avoid and hide a bit.
In this case we were forced to preload dm-mod to work around the issue
;)

> I think its all covered with this patch. :) But if yo have any better
> idea, let us know.

what patch?

L.
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