Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH docs] qm: pci passthrough: correct note about using 'softdep'

[Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>]

Am 19.12.25 um 9:30 AM schrieb Dominik Csapak:
> In most cases with passthrough, the vfio-pci driver is preferred to what
> the kernel would normally load (e.g. amdgpu/nouveau), so 'softdep' can
> be used to make sure 'vfio-pci' is loaded before the actual module.
> 
> This is expressed in our docs already with a sensible example, but the
> text is wrong, since it says 'load the gpu modules *before* loading
> vfio-pci'.
> 
> So simply correct the 'before' to 'after'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  qm-pci-passthrough.adoc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc b/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
> index 52b1d58..3520983 100644
> --- a/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
> +++ b/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
> @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ xref:qm_pci_passthrough_update_initramfs[update the `initramfs`] again and
>  reboot after that.
>  
>  Should this not work, you might need to set a soft dependency to load the gpu
> -modules before loading 'vfio-pci'. This can be done with the 'softdep' flag, see
> +modules after loading 'vfio-pci'. This can be done with the 'softdep' flag, see
>  also the manpages on 'modprobe.d' for more information.
>  
>  For example, if you are using drivers named <some-module>:

Since the example uses "pre: vfio-pci", do you have any objection to
also formulate the sentence here to match this:

"...soft dependency to load 'vfio-pci' before loading the GPU modules."

?