Re: [PATCH 8/9] vfio/pci: export nvlink2 support into vendor vfio_pci drivers

Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-19T16:35:49Z

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 01:28:48PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> The wrinkle I don't yet have an easy answer to is how to load vfio_pci
> as a universal "default" within the driver core lazy bind scheme and
> still have working module autoloading... I'm hoping to get some
> research into this..

Should we even load it by default? One answer would be that the sysfs
file to switch to vfio mode goes into the core PCI layer, and that core
PCI code would contain a hack^H^H^H^Hhook to first load and bind vfio_pci
for that device.