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[PATCH 5.14 204/432] misc/pvpanic-pci: Allow automatic loading

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-09-16 17:34:39
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: char and misc drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds

From: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 28b6a003bcdfa1fc4603b9185b247ecca7af9bef ]

The virtual machine monitor (QEMU) exposes the pvpanic-pci
device to the guest. On guest side the module exists but
currently isn't loaded automatically. So the driver fails
to be probed and does not its job of handling guest panic
events.

Instead of requiring manual modprobe, let's include a device
database using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE macro and let the
module auto-load when the guest gets exposed with such a
pvpanic-pci device.

Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210629072214.901004-1-eric.auger@redhat.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/misc/pvpanic/pvpanic-pci.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/pvpanic/pvpanic-pci.c b/drivers/misc/pvpanic/pvpanic-pci.c
index a43c401017ae..741116b3d995 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/pvpanic/pvpanic-pci.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/pvpanic/pvpanic-pci.c
@@ -108,4 +108,6 @@ static struct pci_driver pvpanic_pci_driver = {
 	},
 };
 
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, pvpanic_pci_id_tbl);
+
 module_pci_driver(pvpanic_pci_driver);
-- 
2.30.2


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