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

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 6:25 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; 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 Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:19:06PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > Thanks Greg. Can you give me some pointers here as to what needs to be
> > done here. Looking at the code for virtio, it looks like I would need to add stuff
> > to scripts/mod/file2alias.c as well as to include/linux/mod_devicetable.h. Will
> you
> > accept patches for these files to support an ID space for Hyper-V vmbus drivers.
> 
> Yes, I will take patches for those files to implement this.
> 
> Along with those files, you also need a way to tell userspace that new
> UIDS are found before the individual drivers are loaded.  Hopefully you
> can do that now, but if not, it will need to be implemented.

Could you elaborate on what user level changes I will have to do.

Thanks,

K. Y
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