[PATCH] KVM: PPC: Add devname:kvm aliases for modules
mihai.caraman at freescale.com
mihai.caraman at freescale.com
Thu Jan 9 02:41:41 EST 2014
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-ppc-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ppc-
> owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Graf
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 5:02 PM
> To: "; " <kvm-ppc at vger.kernel.org>"@suse.de
> Cc: kvm at vger.kernel.org mailing list
> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Add devname:kvm aliases for modules
>
> Systems that support automatic loading of kernel modules through
> device aliases should try and automatically load kvm when /dev/kvm
> gets opened.
>
> Add code to support that magic for all PPC kvm targets, even the
> ones that don't support modules yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
...
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
> @@ -391,3 +391,6 @@ static void __exit kvmppc_e500mc_exit(void)
>
> module_init(kvmppc_e500mc_init);
> module_exit(kvmppc_e500mc_exit);
> +#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
> +MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(KVM_MINOR);
> +MODULE_ALIAS("devname:kvm");
> --
This patch breaks the build on KMV Book3E, you need to include
<linux/module.h> too.
-Mike
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