<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Hey John... it's Jihn Strange... funny meeting you here on dm-devel. So your playing around with dm, huh? I did a few months ago. I like the architecture, as you're seeing, the implementation lacks dicipline. Hope things are going well for you guys at RSC.</div><div>-john</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%">Sent from Samsung tablet</div></div><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: John Utz <John.Utz@wdc.com> <br>Date: 02/24/2014 3:44 PM (GMT-07:00) <br>To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com> <br>Subject: Re: [dm-devel] creating a dm-linear.ko in a current kernel. <br> <br><br>Solved my own issue methinks, the name of the module that i am finding in drivers/md/ is linear.ko, not dm-linear.ko. that was unexpected. i note further that there are other non 'dm- decorated' lkms in md as well, such as multipath, faulty, raid0, etc.<br><br>is there an implication associated with things decorated with dm- vs things not decorated with dm- in the md directory?<br><br>tnx!<br><br>johnu<br>________________________________________<br>From: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com [dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com] on behalf of John Utz [John.Utz@wdc.com]<br>Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 2:01 PM<br>To: dm-devel@redhat.com<br>Subject: [dm-devel] creating a dm-linear.ko in a current kernel.<br><br>Hello;<br><br>I have a linear device that i am attempting to harness to device mapper.<br><br>My expectation that i developed based on my reading was that I could start from a dm-linear.c => dm-linear.ko and go from there.<br><br>But dm-linear.c gets linked into dm-mod.ko, not dm-linear.ko.<br><br>Has dm-linear always been part of dm-mod? i see some stuff on the net that implies the existence of dm-linear.ko, but i have poked around in menuconfig and i can find no specific entry to create it.<br><br>Any suggestions as to how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.<br><br>tnx!<br><br>johnu<br><br>--<br>dm-devel mailing list<br>dm-devel@redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel<br><br>--<br>dm-devel mailing list<br>dm-devel@redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel<br></body>