Re: [PATCH 1/3] scsi_dh: Add modalias support for SCSI targets

James Bottomley
2009-04-07T20:59:33Z

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:43 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Do you still have any concerns (after Peter's response) ?

Yes, the basic concerns still remain:

1. You're forcing autoload now even if the user isn't running
dm ... this is going to cause problems with non-dm based path
handlers
2. autoloading in this fashion is essentially trying to work around
a problem in the initrd tools. The kernel isn't the right place
to implement the fix.

The risks of this approach seem very high, and the rewards pretty small.

James