Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

[Greg KH]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 05:05:02PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote:
> 
> >Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:27 AM -  Hank Janssen
> >>On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote:>
> >>
> >> I am not sure if this is the right approach. hv_netvsc takes a dependency on hv_vmbus.
> >> hv_vmbus does have the same DMI detection logic in it. But unless hv_vmbus has loaded
> >> up competely, hv_netvsc will fail on loadup. And I do not think we can guarantee that
> >> hv_vmbus has loaded yet.
> >
> >Yes you can, the dependancies in the module will take care of it.  Try
> >it, if you try to load the hv_netvsc module before hv_vmbus, modprobe
> >will load hv_vmbus first.
> 
> In my testing I have seen issues with timing.   It takes a little while for VMBus to start
> getting the initialization taken care of with Hyper-V. And I have seen netvsc error with
> unresolved symbols because vmbus had not completed the initialization yet.

Odd, that shouldn't happen, unless you are loading modules in parallel.

If we switch to a proper discovery type bus, this should not be an
issue.

thanks,

greg k-h