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Date:   Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:12:51 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc:     Yang Wang <KevinYang.Wang@amd.com>, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
        bhelgaas@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI/IOV: export pci_vf_drivers_autoprobe() symbol
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On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 01:14:07AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 04:56:39PM +0800, Yang Wang wrote:
> > make pci_vf_drivers_autoprobe() as export symbol.
> > 
> > the external module have no way to control vf autoprobe flag
> > before pf driver call pci_enable_sriov().
> 
> But this does not actually seem to be used by any potentially
> modular driver.

In addition, It is layer violation to control that flag from the driver.

Thanks