[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] usertools/setup: fix loading vfio module

Walsh, Conor conor.walsh at intel.com
Thu Nov 26 16:05:30 CET 2020


Hi Ferruh,

I tested this patch on Ubuntu 20.04 (5.4.0-53-generic) and
Centos 8.2 (4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64), load VFIO worked on both systems.
I'm not sure if this is a problem that effects either of these distros though.

Thanks,
Conor.

> From: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday 26 November 2020 14:19
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Cc: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org;
> techboard at dpdk.org; Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org>; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; Walsh, Conor <conor.walsh at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] usertools/setup: fix loading vfio module
> 
> script is checking the existing of the kernel module file, but in some
> distros kernel modules are stored compressed, like as 'vfio-pci.ko.xz'.
> 
> Add wildcard to cover both compressed and not compressed cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

Tested-by: Conor Walsh <conor.walsh at intel.com>


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