Linux Virtualization - May 2010 - Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

I am attaching a patch to auto-load hv_netvsc.

Regards,

K. Y



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>From: Ky Srinivasan [ksrinivasan at novell.com]  -  Friday, May 07, 2010
4:52 PM
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> I am attaching a patch to auto-load hv_netvsc.
I am not sure if this is the right approach. hv_netvsc takes a dependency on
hv_vmbus.
hv_vmbus does have the same DMI detection logic in it. But unless hv_vmbus has
loaded
up competely, hv_netvsc will fail on loadup. And I do not think we can guarantee
that
hv_vmbus has loaded yet.

It would be better to have netvsc check to make sure hv_vmbus is loaded.

Thanks,

Hank.