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authorAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2017-02-08 23:13:26 +0300
committerAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2017-02-09 22:13:53 +0300
commit0ca582fd0463106e277e1f723b4554b4d0e5f700 (patch)
treed1120b16dab0518f5d55fe553eb7f96ae18bc40c /drivers/vfio
parentf790eb57e6ec8d77489755cc25a51c4409e2f590 (diff)
downloadlinux-0ca582fd0463106e277e1f723b4554b4d0e5f700.tar.xz
vfio: Replace module request with softdep
Rather than doing a module request from within the init function, add a soft dependency on the available IOMMU backend drivers. This makes the dependency visible to userspace when picking modules for the ram disk. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vfio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vfio/vfio.c9
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
index 9901c4671e2f..57052b68f15a 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
@@ -2250,14 +2250,6 @@ static int __init vfio_init(void)
pr_info(DRIVER_DESC " version: " DRIVER_VERSION "\n");
- /*
- * Attempt to load known iommu-drivers. This gives us a working
- * environment without the user needing to explicitly load iommu
- * drivers.
- */
- request_module_nowait("vfio_iommu_type1");
- request_module_nowait("vfio_iommu_spapr_tce");
-
#ifdef CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU
vfio_register_iommu_driver(&vfio_noiommu_ops);
#endif
@@ -2297,3 +2289,4 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR(DRIVER_AUTHOR);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);
MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(VFIO_MINOR);
MODULE_ALIAS("devname:vfio/vfio");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_iommu_spapr_tce");