[PATCH v2] nvme-fabrics: request transport module

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Sun Sep 24 06:15:55 PDT 2017


Help userspace to not make sure transport module is
loaded.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
---
Changes from v1:
- got rid of redundant module name resolution code and ignore request_module
  retcode

 drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
index 6d68738f01ea..ef38552911d4 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
@@ -945,6 +945,9 @@ nvmf_create_ctrl(struct device *dev, const char *buf, size_t count)
 	if (ret)
 		goto out_free_opts;
 
+
+	request_module("nvme-%s", opts->transport);
+
 	/*
 	 * Check the generic options first as we need a valid transport for
 	 * the lookup below.  Then clear the generic flags so that transport
-- 
2.7.4




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