Reply-To: tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:06:14 +0200
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Subject: Re: autoload rpcsec_gss_krb5
From: Tigran Mkrtchyan <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:59 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> By the way:
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 05:32:09PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c
>> index 0a9a2ec..5c33926 100644
>> --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c
>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c
>> @@ -743,6 +743,13 @@ static struct pf_desc gss_kerberos_pfs[] = {
>>       },
>>  };
>>
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("rpc-auth-gss-krb5");
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("rpc-auth-gss-krb5i");
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("rpc-auth-gss-krb5p");
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("rpc-auth-gss-390003");
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("rpc-auth-gss-390004");
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("rpc-auth-gss-390005");
>
> Is there any reason we don't do this for the auth modules, and the pnfs
> layout modules?  Seems silly to wait for distro's to add it to
> modprobe.conf if we don't need to.
>

I recall a discussion at connectaton 2010, where Peter Staubach from
RedHat ( at that time )
requested a way to disable pNFS without rebuilding the kernel.

Probably that's why autoload is not implemented.

Regards,
   Tigran.

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