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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>,
	Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Manual loading of mlx4_en
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:53:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1406627612.4498.16.camel@chaos.site> (raw)

Hi all,

I have a usability concern with the mlx4_en ethernet network driver. The
module aliases for all the supported devices are on the mlx4_core
module, so mlx4_core gets loaded automatically, but mlx4_en does not. I
must load mlx4_en manually (kernel 3.12.)

May I ask why the mlx4 driver was split into mlx4_core and mlx4_en in
the first place?

I have worked around the problem with the following modprobe directive:

install mlx4_core /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install mlx4_core && /sbin/modprobe mlx4_en

But this is kind of a hack and I would expect the right driver to load
automatically without magic.

Shouldn't the module aliases be attached to mlx4_en instead of
mlx4_core?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

             reply	other threads:[~2014-07-29  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-29  9:53 Jean Delvare [this message]
2014-07-29 10:16 ` Manual loading of mlx4_en Amir Vadai
2014-07-29 10:34   ` Jean Delvare
2014-07-29 10:44     ` Amir Vadai
2014-07-29 12:06       ` Jean Delvare
2014-07-29 13:42         ` Amir Vadai
2014-07-30  2:14           ` Benjamin Poirier
2014-07-30  7:56             ` Amir Vadai

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