Re: [PATCH] nvme: add missing MODULE_ALIAS for fabrics transports

[Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>]

Hi Christoph,

On Wed, 2026-04-08 at 08:10 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Looks good:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> > Recently, I've been working on adding MPTCP support for NVMe over
> > TCP, so
> > I added a new transport called "nvme-mptcp". The AI review in [1]
> > reminded
> > me that I should add MODULE_ALIAS("nvme-mptcp"). Then I checked the
> > other
> > transports and found that they were all missing the MODULE_ALIAS as
> > well.
> > I felt it was necessary to add them, so I sent this patch.
> 
> As a reminder:  if you want that to go anywhere you need to engage
> with
> the nvme technical working group, which requires a nvme membership
> first.  There will be no point in posting or even discussing this on
> Linux mailing lists if it isn't approved by nvme.
> 

Thank you for the reminder - that was extremely helpful. I've been
struggling to figure out how to get nvme mptcp support upstream.

I left SUSE two years ago, and my current employer does not have a nvme
membership. I will work internally to push the company to apply for
one, and then try to join the nvme technical working group to move this
forward.

By the way, I will be presenting a topic on nvme mptcp [1] at next
month's LSF/MM/BPF 2026 conference. If anyone has any thoughts or
feedback on this topic, please feel free to share them with me.

Thank you very much.
-Geliang

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/a9f115aa5719e1088702a3fdeee766a3166611b1.camel@kernel.org/