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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:05:25 +0200
From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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To: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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        "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 19/21] NFS: Convert v4 into a module
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On 02/13/2012 12:20 AM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 20:02 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> On 02/11/2012 12:02 AM, bjschuma@netapp.com wrote:
>>> The module will be created in the same directory as nfs.ko.  You need to
>>> run `modprobe nfs4` before you can use it.
>>>
>>
>> Can we do this mod_alias and autoloading magic like we do with 
>> LD drivers, so if NFSv4 is requested it is automatically loaded
>> by Kernel. 
> 
> You need to call request-module() from the nfs.ko module as soon as you
> know which version the user is trying to load...
> I don't see why you need mod_alias?
> 

That will work. I can now see that it's on the todo in the [00/21] mail
Sorry for the noise

Thanks
Boaz