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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: fix vfio kmod dependency
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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:25 AM, David Marchand
<david.marchand@6wind.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> 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.
*really* CCing stable ...
--
David Marchand