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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"Virtualization@lists.osdl.org" <Virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 16:02:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE5ED79.9080008@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100508142716.GA32133@kroah.com>

On 05/08/2010 07:27 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> How would you do that?  The symbol resolution will not allow hv_netvsc
> to be loaded without hv_vmbus being around.
>
> Now I do think that just adding the same pci/dmi ids to all of the
> modules is a bit odd, and that something else needs to be done here, but
> at the moment, I can't think of anything better.
>   

Could you make hv_vmbus a real bus implementation, which knows how to
enumerate and probe devices hanging off it?

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-08 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-07 23:52 Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver Ky Srinivasan
2010-05-08 13:52 ` Hank Janssen
2010-05-08 14:27   ` Greg KH
2010-05-08 23:02     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2010-05-10 15:49       ` Greg KH
2010-05-10 17:05     ` Hank Janssen
2010-05-10 17:21       ` Greg KH
2010-05-11 13:55         ` Ky Srinivasan

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