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[PATCH 0/4] Load Linux module only when supported hardware is present.

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Message #263 received at 30604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 30604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30604] [PATCH v8 3/7] linux-boot: Load kernel modules only
 when the hardware is present.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:36:44 +0100

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> Similarly, it seems that virtio_blk has to be loaded explicitly: is not
> reported by ‘needed-modules’ (i.e., not listed in /sys/…/modalias), nor
> do we get a modprobe query for it.

qemu seems to have a bug that it doesn't assign pci ids properly.

Patch v9 6/7 works around it by fixing the virtio-blk-pci address.

Nicer fixes welcome.

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