Messages in this thread | | | From | Vitaly Kuznetsov <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for software backchannel interface | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:16:17 +0200 |
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Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> writes:
> > The pci_hyperv can only be loaded on VMs on Hyper-V and Azure. Other > drivers like MLX5e will have symbolic dependency of pci_hyperv if they > use functions exported by pci_hyperv. This dependency will cause other > drivers fail to load on other platforms, like VMs on KVM. So we created > this mini driver, which can be loaded on any platforms to provide the > symbolic dependency.
(/me wondering is there a nicer way around this, by using __weak or something like that...)
In case this stub is the best solution I'd suggest to rename it to something like PCI_HYPERV_INTERFACE to make it clear it is not a separate driver (_MINI makes me think so).
-- Vitaly
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