Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:50:35 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf/x86/uncore: modularize Intel uncore driver |
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> > 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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