Re: [PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi: add module alias for ibmvscsic

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 18:49 +0200, olaf@aepfle.de wrote:

quoted

From: Olaf Hering <redacted>

The driver is named ibmvscsic, at runtime it its name is advertised as
ibmvscsi. For this reason mkinitrd wont pickup the driver properly.
Reported by IBM during SLES11 beta testing:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459933
LTC50724

So while this would work, I do wonder however whether we could instead
fix it by simplifying the whole thing as follow since iSeries is now
gone and so we don't need split backends anymore:

scsi/ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction

Now that the iSeries code is gone the backend abstraction
in this driver is no longer necessary, which allows us to
consolidate the driver in one file.

The side effect is that the module name is now ibmvscsi.ko
which matches the driver hotplug name and fixes auto-load
issues.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.

I've give this a quick test and I prefer this cleanup, it solves the
initial problem nicely.

James, please consider pulling this patch.  Thanks.

Acked-by: Robert Jennings <redacted>