[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: fix vfio kmod dependency

[David Marchand]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 May 2017 15:12:37 +0200, David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com> wrote:
>> vfio is the kernel framework used by the vfio-pci kernel driver.
>> DPDK drivers do not rely solely on vfio, but rather on vfio-pci to gain
>> access to pci resources.
>>
>> Fixes: 0880c40113ef ("drivers: advertise kmod dependencies in pmdinfo")
>> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com>
>
> Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
>
> What would be the impact of not having this fix?

Mainly reporting an incomplete information on the PMD needs.

> I think it would prevent scripts based on pmd modinfo to load the proper
> kernel module (vfio-pci). So I'd suggest to CC stable. What do you think?

Yes, CCing stable sounds sane to me.


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David Marchand