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From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
To: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, nbd@other.debian.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] nbd: automatically load module on genl access
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:33:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230713203324.GA338010@perftesting> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230713-b4-nbd-genl-v3-1-226cbddba04b@weissschuh.net>

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 09:29:35PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Add a module alias to nbd.ko that allows the generic netlink core to
> automatically load the module when netlink messages for nbd are
> received.
> 
> This frees the user from manually having to load the module before using
> nbd functionality via netlink.
> If the system policy allows it this can even be used to load the nbd
> module from containers which would otherwise not have access to the
> necessary module files to do a normal "modprobe nbd".
> 
> For example this avoids the following error when using nbd-client:
> 
> $ nbd-client localhost 10809 /dev/nbd0
> ...
> Error: Couldn't resolve the nbd netlink family, make sure the nbd module is loaded and your nbd driver supports the netlink interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpadna.com>

Thanks,

Josef

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-13 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-13 19:29 [PATCH v3] nbd: automatically load module on genl access Thomas Weißschuh
2023-07-13 20:33 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2023-07-13 20:37 ` Jens Axboe

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