From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com (mail-wm0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94A723B for ; Mon, 22 May 2017 10:27:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f53.google.com with SMTP id 123so10015430wmg.1 for ; Mon, 22 May 2017 01:27:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=zBVG6RCC0CjPxVKfqlm2hBWLJQb49fHnd4m/zMpHK8k=; b=vNezWLFSGOf4fjxKjiv7J0mKL2V2/yjoMbKa2hZaa1VxyYz/Yl9LF9zdFpQVilWWEW 9xIy4/sMdW5tiM1oJYkE0YxGDS5tLcM38jeeDEbEAPYRW/v1K4lUsbUmnVEhM89JvH73 5j7kkgFwWEkS9z03J8DscVnWXP84U60mOd2IYnGgh4IpAGuzNZ0y6LcB9MuaDISURw/E UVjwCCMHhYlRpz4Eut9Tl0cL6gV1KOnzPpaUAw+6fb9EHOEe/T8ZO9Km21J/HqDwoaBJ koGC4s5ZUVuHkOKHpQjZbfExtRzsR7CCwBpRO/f3+QmO790IRyPB+Zh1Zdvj8fMklYju 8GtQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=zBVG6RCC0CjPxVKfqlm2hBWLJQb49fHnd4m/zMpHK8k=; b=lPEwXih3Sh27MygTplzGf3kr4h1W6Dqfj+U9bB8iiSc5Z6HJ9F+4PON7B2Qa0L3SJe TwuheXJ+Nq1l4y/7hkGTIVUPpH5dD5gLN8lNfrrMAiI2JHPT1fu9W1pc41FSc8zkCPXk UL9esIKzC6RLQSrXUr5exPJ7jeBpcLRKAcbUV84EerOrQTaFCGlHOScyygRFrsngFAeZ 8kZGb5FdkPJH/nzYLkI0cdtPi/pNFYBqQteT+xV7OB/zccqWc2UV9RcDBpJIdyhs/3RA 0NLh2FFUolidq+4j8tcptJZ/hvdCajYLk1WuZn7dii1oNM1sI8o5ikREEcglbkri343n i8XA== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcBddRl9027o7qgvedQlav4nQz+W2DWjrEf793ESAnDFF52n0UMV B/pSNheLBUvxALqXHeyrTdu2yX7mjLtc X-Received: by 10.28.57.9 with SMTP id g9mr11866674wma.120.1495441650679; Mon, 22 May 2017 01:27:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.28.109.199 with HTTP; Mon, 22 May 2017 01:27:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1495285957-22307-1-git-send-email-david.marchand@6wind.com> <20170522101825.7c4b99b6@platinum> From: David Marchand Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:27:10 +0200 Message-ID: To: Olivier Matz Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" , Ferruh Yigit , stable@dpdk.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] drivers: fix vfio kmod dependency X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 08:27:31 -0000 On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:25 AM, David Marchand wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Olivier Matz wrote: >> On Sat, 20 May 2017 15:12:37 +0200, David Marchand 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 >> >> Acked-by: Olivier Matz >> >> 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