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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: fix vfio kmod dependency
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:18:25 +0200
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On Sat, 20 May 2017 15:12:37 +0200, David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com> wrote:
> vfio is the kernel framework used by the vfio-pci kernel driver.
> DPDK drivers do not rely solely on vfio, but rather on vfio-pci to gain
> access to pci resources.
> 
> Fixes: 0880c40113ef ("drivers: advertise kmod dependencies in pmdinfo")
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

What would be the impact of not having this fix?
I think it would prevent scripts based on pmd modinfo to load the proper
kernel module (vfio-pci). So I'd suggest to CC stable. What do you think?

Regards,
Olivier