>Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:27 AM - Hank Janssen >>On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote:> >> >> 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. > >Yes you can, the dependancies in the module will take care of it. Try >it, if you try to load the hv_netvsc module before hv_vmbus, modprobe >will load hv_vmbus first.
In my testing I have seen issues with timing. It takes a little while for VMBus to start getting the initialization taken care of with Hyper-V. And I have seen netvsc error with unresolved symbols because vmbus had not completed the initialization yet. Thanks, Hank. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
