RE: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for software backchannel interface

[Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>]

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> Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for
> software backchannel interface
> 
> Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > The pci_hyperv can only be loaded on VMs on Hyper-V and Azure. Other
> > drivers like MLX5e will have symbolic dependency of pci_hyperv if they
> > use functions exported by pci_hyperv. This dependency will cause other
> > drivers fail to load on other platforms, like VMs on KVM. So we
> > created this mini driver, which can be loaded on any platforms to
> > provide the symbolic dependency.
> 
> (/me wondering is there a nicer way around this, by using __weak or
> something like that...)
> 
> In case this stub is the best solution I'd suggest to rename it to something like
> PCI_HYPERV_INTERFACE to make it clear it is not a separate driver (_MINI
> makes me think so).

Thanks! I will consider those options.