Re: Safe to delete rpcrdma.ko loading start-up code

Sagi Grimberg
2024-05-21T16:10:56Z

On 21/05/2024 18:23, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 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?

Something (/etc/modules-load?) loaded it intentionally.
That something knows about a concrete intention to use nvme though...