On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote: > > > >From: Ky Srinivasan [ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx] - Friday, May 07, 2010 4:52 PM > > > > I am attaching a patch to auto-load hv_netvsc. > > I am not sure if this is the right approach. hv_netvsc takes a dependency on hv_vmbus. > hv_vmbus does have the same DMI detection logic in it. But unless hv_vmbus has loaded > up competely, hv_netvsc will fail on loadup. And I do not think we can guarantee that > hv_vmbus has loaded yet. Yes you can, the dependancies in the module will take care of it. Try it, if you try to load the hv_netvsc module before hv_vmbus, modprobe will load hv_vmbus first. > It would be better to have netvsc check to make sure hv_vmbus is loaded. 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. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
