[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "dm snapshot: add missing module aliases" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Mar 4 20:49:46 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dm snapshot: add missing module aliases

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 92ac5c16988e43ae1c56059ef83e5f9c187fc529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 22:45:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] dm snapshot: add missing module aliases

commit 23cb21092eb9dcec9d3604b68d95192b79915890 upstream.

Add module aliases so that autoloading works correctly if the user
tries to activate "snapshot-origin" or "snapshot-merge" targets.

Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/889973

Reported-by: Chao Yang <chyang at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
index 6f75887..5f4659e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -2327,3 +2327,5 @@ module_exit(dm_snapshot_exit);
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DM_NAME " snapshot target");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Joe Thornber");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS("dm-snapshot-origin");
+MODULE_ALIAS("dm-snapshot-merge");
--
1.8.1.2





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