Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: add kvmgt as i915's soft dependency

[Hang Yuan <hang.yuan@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 08:44:50AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting hang.yuan@linux.intel.com (2018-06-22 08:32:57)
> > From: Hang Yuan <hang.yuan@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > This helps kvmgt included in initramfs and got loaded after i915.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hang Yuan <hang.yuan@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> > index 062e91b..a0fb51f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> > @@ -773,3 +773,5 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
> >  
> >  MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);
> >  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights");
> > +
> > +MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: kvmgt");
> 
> The dependency is added by gvt, so what's it doing here?
> -Chris
It wants to indicate the soft dependency between i915 and kvmgt. So kvmgt can be loaded automatically after i915 module, for example, in initramfs. Do you see any problem here?
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