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    SUNRPC: Missing module alias for auth_rpcgss.ko · 71afa85e
    Chuck Lever authored
    Commit f344f6df "SUNRPC: Auto-load RPC authentication kernel
    modules", Mon Mar 20 13:44:08 2006, adds a request_module() call
    in rpcauth_create() to auto-load RPC security modules when a ULP
    tries to create a credential of that flavor.
    
    In rpcauth_create(), the name of the module to load is built like
    this:
    
    	request_module("rpc-auth-%u", flavor);
    
    This means that for, say, RPC_AUTH_GSS, request_module() is looking
    for a module or alias called "rpc-auth-6".
    
    The GSS module is named "auth_rpcgss", and commit f344f6df does not
    add any new module aliases.  There is also no such alias provided in
    /etc/modprobe.d on my system (Fedora 16).  Without this alias, the
    GSS module is not loaded on demand.
    
    This is used by rpcauth_create().  The pseudoflavor_to_flavor() call
    can return RPC_AUTH_GSS, which is passed to request_module().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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