[dm-devel] Autoload of DM kernel targets?

[Mike Snitzer]

On Mon, Apr 24 2017 at 12:05am -0400,
NeilBrown <neilb at suse.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 21 2017, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 
> > See as example https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983221
> >
> > "non-standard" DM targets do not appear to be autoloaded (the problem
> > was hit with thin-pool, but it seems to apply to other targets as well).
> > "Common" targets (like linear) are provided by dm-mod which seems to be
> > autoloaded by virtue of /dev/mapper/control.
> >
> > Is it expected and intentional? Or are users required to manually load
> > necessary modules on boot?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > -andrei
> >
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> 
> Does this patch fix it for you?
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
> index 8f811dc8b3cc..d2c6a9a12d75 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
> @@ -4400,3 +4400,4 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(no_space_timeout, "Out of data space queue IO timeout in second
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DM_NAME " thin provisioning target");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Joe Thornber <dm-devel at redhat.com>");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("dm-thin-pool");
> 
> NeilBrown

The module is named "dm-thin-pool.ko", so I'm not following why that
patch would help.