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

[Luca Berra]

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 at 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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