RE: [PATCH 12/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Add a DMI signature tosupport auto-loading

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 10:54:32 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 7:13 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Haiyang Zhang;
> Abhishek Kane (Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD)
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Add a DMI signature to support
> auto-loading
>
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:49:36PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > To support auto-loading the storvsc driver, add a DMI signature.
>
> The storvsc driver is not a DMI driver, but a vmbus driver. As such it
> should have a vmbus table that is used for autoloading, not a dmi one.
>

A while ago, Greg introduced DMI signatures to these drivers to support
auto-loading. This signature is not used for anything else. For some reason,
this storvsc driver was missing this signature. I added it again to only support
auto-loading.

Regards,

K. Y

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