From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from agk-dp.fab.redhat.com (agk-dp.fab.redhat.com [10.33.0.20]) by int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0SMemwZ013078 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:40:49 -0500 Received: from agk by agk-dp.fab.redhat.com with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nad2g-0002QF-4s for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:40:50 +0000 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:40:50 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon Message-ID: <20100128224049.GK5478@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> References: <20100128200119.GA15513@maude.comedia.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100128200119.GA15513@maude.comedia.it> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] loading of dm-mod by libdevmapper Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:01:19PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > Is there any particular reason why libdevmapper does not load dm-mod as > needed, like lvm does for dm targets? Until recently libdevmapper did not have target-specific code (which this would need). Ultimately I want to move most of the target-specific activation code out of LVM into libdevmapper. > Would a patch in this sense be accepted? Depends on the patch. If it works as the next step of this 'moving the code scheme' or is tiny, perhaps. If it's too clumsy or would have to be removed before moving the code in, no. Alasdair