From: "Nikolova, Tatyana E" <tatyana.e.nikolova@intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: "dledford@redhat.com" <dledford@redhat.com>,
"leon@kernel.org" <leon@kernel.org>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] irdma: Add ice and irdma to kernel-boot rules
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:46:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR11MB469202DCC6359485037E02FFCBC19@DM6PR11MB4692.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210818164557.GB5673@nvidia.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 11:46 AM
> To: Nikolova, Tatyana E <tatyana.e.nikolova@intel.com>
> Cc: dledford@redhat.com; leon@kernel.org; linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] irdma: Add ice and irdma to kernel-boot rules
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:33:04PM +0000, Nikolova, Tatyana E wrote:
> > > > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ENV{ID_NET_DRIVER}=="bnxt_en",
> > > RUN{builtin}+="kmod load bnxt_re"
> > > > ENV{ID_NET_DRIVER}=="cxgb4", RUN{builtin}+="kmod load iw_cxgb4"
> > > > ENV{ID_NET_DRIVER}=="hns", RUN{builtin}+="kmod load hns_roce"
> > > > ENV{ID_NET_DRIVER}=="i40e", RUN{builtin}+="kmod load i40iw"
> > > > +ENV{ID_NET_DRIVER}=="ice", RUN{builtin}+="kmod load irdma"
> > >
> > > This should not be needed, right? The auxbux stuff triggers proper
> > > module autoloading?
> >
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > Our module depends on the auxbus, but we don't know how the auxbus
> > could trigger loading of irdma. Could you please explain?
>
> It should simply happen automatically once the aux device is created. If it
> doesn't something is missing in the kernel.
>
> It works the same way as any loading a module for any other struct device,
> the aux device exposes a modalias and the userspace matches it to the
> modules.alias file and then loads the specified module.
Thank you for the explanation. The modalias is exposed by the aux device as you described.
Tatyana
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-20 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-06 17:58 [PATCH] irdma: Add ice and irdma to kernel-boot rules Tatyana Nikolova
2021-08-06 18:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-12 23:33 ` Nikolova, Tatyana E
2021-08-18 16:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-20 21:46 ` Nikolova, Tatyana E [this message]
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