linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-pciback: Add MODULE

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Message-ID: <1408555596.16955.12.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:26:36 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-pciback: Add MODULE_ALIAS for pciback.

On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 13:20 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 06:18:52PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 12:40 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > The rest of the Xen device drivers use an module alias
> > > to load devices when they shop up in XenBus.
> > 
> > "show".
> > >  
> > >  MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
> > >  MODULE_ALIAS("xen-backend:pci");
> > > +MODULE_ALIAS("xen:pci");
> > 
> > Isn't that xen-backend:pci already the right thing for a backend device?
> > xen: is for frontends, I thought.
> 
> Oh, you are right. Cool! Thanks!

The patch turned out to be even more trivial than expected ;-)

Ian.

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