misc/pvpanic-pci: Allow automatic loading
authorEric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Tue, 29 Jun 2021 07:22:14 +0000 (09:22 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:57:58 +0000 (14:57 +0200)
commit28b6a003bcdfa1fc4603b9185b247ecca7af9bef
tree5483c6d368bffa7d0c79106973e7fec8077cf872
parent8990f96a012f42543005b07d9e482694192e9309
misc/pvpanic-pci: Allow automatic loading

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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/pvpanic/pvpanic-pci.c