Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com> writes: > > The pci_hyperv can only be loaded on VMs on Hyper-V and Azure. Other > drivers like MLX5e will have symbolic dependency of pci_hyperv if they > use functions exported by pci_hyperv. This dependency will cause other > drivers fail to load on other platforms, like VMs on KVM. So we created > this mini driver, which can be loaded on any platforms to provide the > symbolic dependency.
(/me wondering is there a nicer way around this, by using __weak or something like that...) In case this stub is the best solution I'd suggest to rename it to something like PCI_HYPERV_INTERFACE to make it clear it is not a separate driver (_MINI makes me think so). -- Vitaly
