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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Cc: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
	vido@cesnet.cz, fiona.trahe@intel.com,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: advertise kmod dependencies in pmdinfo
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:17:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160919081726.GA23360@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALwxeUvaV2zhAxgLabCx3mF_ftfSPgSXRy8fzCdktPDWngTuJA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 04:26:35PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com> wrote:
> > Add a new macro DRIVER_REGISTER_KMOD_DEP() that allows a driver to
> > declare the list of kernel modules required to run properly.
> >
> > Today, most PCI drivers require uio/vfio.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> 
> Thanks Olivier, this looks good to me.
> 
> Btw, I remember some issues with binding ixgbevf devices to
> uio_pci_generic, so advertising should be carefully checked for each
> driver.

+1 here. In general, uio_pci_generic will not bind to VF devices as VF devices
don't provide legacy interrupts, which is required to use uio_pci_generic. It's
not limited to just ixgbevf

/Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-19  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-26 13:20 [RFC] drivers: advertise kmod dependencies in pmdinfo Olivier Matz
2016-08-30  8:40 ` Matej Vido
2016-08-30  8:56   ` Olivier Matz
2016-08-30 13:23 ` [dpdk-dev, RFC] " Neil Horman
2016-08-31  9:21   ` Olivier Matz
2016-08-31 13:27     ` Neil Horman
2016-08-31 13:39       ` Olivier Matz
2016-09-01 12:55         ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-09-01 17:35           ` Neil Horman
2016-09-01 17:41             ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-01 19:15               ` Neil Horman
2016-09-02  9:19                 ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-09-02 13:33                   ` Neil Horman
2016-09-02 13:52                     ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-09-02 14:15                       ` Neil Horman
2016-09-02 16:13                         ` Olivier Matz
2016-09-02 10:55               ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-15 14:22 ` [PATCH] " Olivier Matz
2016-09-16  9:49   ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-09-16 14:26   ` David Marchand
2016-09-19  8:17     ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2016-09-19 12:25       ` Olivier Matz
2016-11-22  9:50   ` [PATCH v2] " Olivier Matz
2016-11-22 10:27     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2016-11-22 10:31       ` Olivier Matz
2016-12-15 13:46     ` [PATCH v3] " Olivier Matz
2016-12-15 14:52       ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-16  9:36         ` Olivier Matz
2016-12-19 13:30           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-15 16:09       ` Neil Horman
2016-12-15 17:22         ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-12-16  9:22           ` Olivier Matz
2016-12-16 12:37             ` Neil Horman
2016-12-16 13:04               ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-16 14:19               ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-19 12:42                 ` Neil Horman
2016-12-19 14:12                   ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-16  8:23       ` Adrien Mazarguil
2016-12-20 17:26         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-21  9:21           ` Andrew Rybchenko
2016-12-21 11:37             ` Neil Horman
2016-12-21 11:40               ` Andrew Rybchenko
2016-12-22 11:04                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-22 11:35                   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2016-12-22 12:07                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-22 12:08                       ` Andrew Rybchenko

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