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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: advertise kmod dependencies in
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:17:27 +0100
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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