ACK/question: [SRU][Bionic][PATCH] UBUNTU: [Config] Add nfp.ko to generic inclusion list

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu May 17 21:03:15 UTC 2018


On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 01:13:15PM -0400, Khaled Elmously wrote:
> On 2018-05-17 10:25:08 , Seth Forshee wrote:
> > BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768526
> > 
> > Move this to linux-modules so that VFs of Netronome Agilio
> > SmartNICs which have been made available to guests using PCI
> > pass-through can be used by those guests.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list b/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> > index 524b20957402..97ab81072a75 100644
> > --- a/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> > +++ b/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> > @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/igbvf.ko
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/*
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.ko
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/*
> > +drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp.ko
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.ko
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139too.ko
> >  drivers/net/fddi/*
> 
> Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>
> 
> Is there specific criteria for what causes a driver to live in modules vs modules-extra?

Basically things that are needed when linux-image-virtual is used (in
this case cloud images) should go in linux-modules, the rest can go in
linux-modules-extra.




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