Re: [PATCH] KVM: s390: Add "devname:kvm" alias.

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 28/05/2013 12:44, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto:
> Il 27/05/2013 18:42, Cornelia Huck ha scritto:
>> Providing a "devname:kvm" module alias enables automatic loading of
>> the kvm module when /dev/kvm is opened.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 9 +++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>> index 93444c4..3b597e5 100644
>> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>> @@ -1138,3 +1138,12 @@ static void __exit kvm_s390_exit(void)
>>  
>>  module_init(kvm_s390_init);
>>  module_exit(kvm_s390_exit);
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Enable autoloading of the kvm module.
>> + * Note that we add the module alias here instead of virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> + * since x86 takes a different approach.
>> + */
>> +#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
>> +MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(KVM_MINOR);
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("devname:kvm");
>>
> 
> Applied, thanks.

After discussion with Gleb, we have decided to postpone this patch to
3.11.  Thanks for your understanding. :)

I'll push pending patches to master and queue soon.

Paolo