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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: fix vfio kmod dependency
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:18:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170522101825.7c4b99b6@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1495285957-22307-1-git-send-email-david.marchand@6wind.com>

On Sat, 20 May 2017 15:12:37 +0200, David Marchand <david.marchand@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@6wind.com>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

What would be the impact of not having this fix?
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?

Regards,
Olivier

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-22  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-20 13:12 David Marchand
2017-05-22  8:18 ` Olivier Matz [this message]
2017-05-22  8:25   ` David Marchand
2017-05-22  8:27     ` David Marchand
2017-06-05 18:57   ` Thomas Monjalon

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