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Commit f790eb57 authored by Alex Williamson's avatar Alex Williamson
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vfio/mdev: Use a module softdep for vfio_mdev 



Use an explicit module softdep rather than a request module call such
that the dependency is exposed to userspace.  This allows us to more
easily support modules loaded at initrd time.

Reviewed by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
parent d88423f7

drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c

+2 −12
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@@ -422,18 +422,7 @@ int mdev_device_remove(struct device *dev, bool force_remove) 


static int __init mdev_init(void)

{

	int ret;



	ret = mdev_bus_register();



	/*

	 * Attempt to load known vfio_mdev.  This gives us a working environment

	 * without the user needing to explicitly load vfio_mdev driver.

	 */

	if (!ret)

		request_module_nowait("vfio_mdev");



	return ret;

	return mdev_bus_register();

}



static void __exit mdev_exit(void)
@@ -451,3 +440,4 @@ MODULE_VERSION(DRIVER_VERSION); 
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

MODULE_AUTHOR(DRIVER_AUTHOR);

MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);

MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: vfio_mdev");