From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: fix vfio kmod dependency
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:25:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALwxeUthY9RsW16Mci6QQLHaQaQ7x8oUHDZWUGAgA7xRVU-pwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170522101825.7c4b99b6@platinum>
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.
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 8:26 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
2017-05-22 8:25 ` David Marchand [this message]
2017-05-22 8:27 ` David Marchand
2017-06-05 18:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
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