Ubuntu autofs and module-init-tools contacts

[Ian Kent]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 23:25 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
>> The change I'm planning on proposing is to remove the autofs kernel
>> module and rename the autofs4 module to autofs. This has implications
>> for older modprobe code in init scripts as a MODULE_ALIAS() can't do the
>> whole job and an alias will need to be added to the module-init-tools
>> configuration. Of course 2.6.31 (or more probably later) is probably a
>> long way away for many distributions, but raising awareness early can't
>> be a bad thing. Also, knowing who to contact (blame) is a good thing too.
>>
> Why can't MODULE_ALIAS do the whole job?  You can do everything with
> MODULE_ALIAS() that you can do with an "alias" line in
> module-init-tools.
> 
> We have eliminated them all, and are not really looking to put any
> back ;)

I don't know yet.

My initial testing showed that this didn't work in all cases I checked.
The only reason we need anything at all is backward compatibility.
The whole idea here is to get rid of the need to manually load the
autofs module at all.

Ian