[PATCH] NFSv4: Add modalias for "nfs4"

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Fri Apr 27 2012 - 09:10:39 EST


When NFSv4 is configured, the support goes into the nfs.ko module.
However, nfs-utils seems to pass "nfs4" as the fileststem type for
NFSv4 mounts. If the nfs module is not already loaded, the kernel
will eventually do a module request for "nfs4". Apparently, this
has worked until now as the distributions ship a module config file
that manually aliases "nfs4" to "nfs".

There is really no need to do this, as the kernel can provide a
module alias internally for nfs4. This adds that.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
index 60d5f4c..d6929c3 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -6550,6 +6550,7 @@ const struct xattr_handler *nfs4_xattr_handlers[] = {
module_param(max_session_slots, ushort, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_session_slots, "Maximum number of outstanding NFSv4.1 "
"requests the client will negotiate");
+MODULE_ALIAS("nfs4");

/*
* Local variables:
--
1.7.10

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