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Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 12:23:25 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
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Subject: Re: Safe to delete rpcrdma.ko loading start-up code
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On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 05:12:23PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> > > > > I also see that srp(t) and iser(t) are loaded too.. IIRC these are
> > > > > loaded by their userspace counterparts as well (or at least they
> > > > > should).
> > > > And AFIAK, these don't have a way to autoload at all. autoload
> > > > requires the kernel to call request_module..
> > > nvme/nvmet/isert are requested by the kernel.
> > How? What is the interface to trigger request_module?
> 
> On the host, writing to the nvme-fabrics misc device a comma-separated
> connection string
> contains a transport string, which triggers the corresponding module to be
> requested.

But how did nvme-fabrics even get loaded to write to it's config fs in
the first place?

Jason