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

[Robert Jennings]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 18:49 +0200, olaf at aepfle.de wrote:
>> From: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
>>
>> 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 at 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 <rcj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>