It turns out that systemd has a bug: it wants to load the autofs module
early because of some initialization ordering with udev, and it doesn't
do that correctly. Everywhere else it does the proper "look up module
name" that does the proper alias resolution, but in that early code, it
just uses a hardcoded "autofs4" for the module name.
The result of that is that as of commit a2225d931f ("autofs: remove
left-over autofs4 stubs"), you get
systemd[1]: Failed to insert module 'autofs4': No such file or directory
in the system logs, and a lack of module loading. All this despite the
fact that we had very clearly marked 'autofs4' as an alias for this
module.
What's so ridiculous about this is that literally everything else does
the module alias handling correctly, including really old versions of
systemd (that just used 'modprobe' to do this), and even all the other
systemd module loading code.
Only that special systemd early module load code is broken, hardcoding
the module names for not just 'autofs4', but also "ipv6", "unix",
"ip_tables" and "virtio_rng". Very annoying.
Instead of creating an _additional_ separate compatibility 'autofs4'
module, just rely on the fact that everybody else gets this right, and
just call the module 'autofs4' for compatibility reasons, with 'autofs'
as the alias name.
That will allow the systemd people to fix their bugs, adding the proper
alias handling, and maybe even fix the name of the module to be just
"autofs" (so that they can _test_ the alias handling). And eventually,
we can revert this silly compatibility hack.
See also
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9501https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902946
for the systemd bug reports upstream and in the Debian bug tracker
respectively.
Fixes: a2225d931f ("autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reported-by: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nobody appears to be interested in fixing autofs3 bugs
any more and it uses the BKL, which is going away.
Move this to staging for retirement. Unless someone
complains until 2.6.38, we can remove it for good.
The include/linux/auto_fs.h header file is still used
by autofs4, so it remains in place.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Linus Torvalds