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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] perf/x86/uncore: modularize Intel uncore driver
> 
> I'm not necessarily against the idea, it's just it's tricky enough as it
> is trying to help people with uncore pmu issues and now I will have to add
> "make sure the relevant kernel module is loaded" to the list of things
> that could be going wrong.

In theory the module could be always auto loaded (by adding a
exported pci_device_id to the driver). However for 99% of users it would
be wasted memory, as they never monitor anything.

One way to handle it would be just to add a request_module with
appropiate aliases to perf.

-Andi


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