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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 16:02:17 -0700
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On 05/08/2010 07:27 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> How would you do that?  The symbol resolution will not allow hv_netvsc
> to be loaded without hv_vmbus being around.
>
> Now I do think that just adding the same pci/dmi ids to all of the
> modules is a bit odd, and that something else needs to be done here, but
> at the moment, I can't think of anything better.
>   

Could you make hv_vmbus a real bus implementation, which knows how to
enumerate and probe devices hanging off it?

    J