[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: add kvmgt as i915's soft dependency

[Hang Yuan]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 04:33:21PM +0800, intel-gvt-dev-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 08:44:50AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting hang.yuan at linux.intel.com (2018-06-22 08:32:57)
> > > From: Hang Yuan <hang.yuan at linux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > This helps kvmgt included in initramfs and got loaded after i915.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Hang Yuan <hang.yuan at linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> > > index 062e91b..a0fb51f 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> > > @@ -773,3 +773,5 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
> > >  
> > >  MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);
> > >  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights");
> > > +
> > > +MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: kvmgt");
> > 
> > The dependency is added by gvt, so what's it doing here?
> > -Chris
> It wants to indicate the soft dependency between i915 and kvmgt. So kvmgt can be loaded automatically after i915 module, for example, in initramfs. Do you see any problem here?
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