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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-pciback: Add MODULE_ALIAS for pciback.
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On Nov 26, 2014 11:39 AM, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 13:20 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 06:18:52PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 12:40 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >> > > The rest of the Xen device drivers use an module alias
> >> > > to load devices when they shop up in XenBus.
> >> >
> >> > "show".
> >> > >
> >> > >  MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
> >> > >  MODULE_ALIAS("xen-backend:pci");
> >> > > +MODULE_ALIAS("xen:pci");
> >> >
> >> > Isn't that xen-backend:pci already the right thing for a backend device?
> >> > xen: is for frontends, I thought.
> >>
> >> Oh, you are right. Cool! Thanks!
> >
> > The patch turned out to be even more trivial than expected ;-)
>
> Is this what we expected to be pending work for the item "device
> hotplug (MODULE_ALIAS)" on the upstream TODO list?
>
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/XenParavirtOps#Upstream_delta_details
>
> This was simply to just auto load that driver when needed right?
>

Right which it does now.

> Also as for actual PCI device hotplug support:
>
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_PCI_Passthrough#Hotplug
>
> I don't think we need a delta for that do we?

Nope. This one is all done.
>
> Luis
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