Re: [PATCH] virt: sev-guest: Add MODULE_ALIAS

[Tom Lendacky]

On 11/5/22 11:08, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 11/4/22 4:53 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 04:42:45PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > > This fixes driver autoloading
> >
> > What is the scenario where this needs to be autoloaded?
>
> Any use case that needs /dev/sev-guest, I guess. Saves software from
> having to do the modprobe manually. For example, nothing I can find in
> https://github.com/AMDESE/sev-guest loads the driver, it expects
> /dev/sev-guest to be there already
>
> Mostly I assumed lack of autoloading was an oversight. Was it
> intentionally omitted?

It probably was an oversight. To me, it makes sense to auto-load the 
module if the SNP support created the platform device as part of SNP 
initialization.

Thanks,
Tom

> Thanks,
> Cole