From: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH docs] qm: pci passthrough: correct note about using 'softdep'
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:30:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251219083102.623503-1-d.csapak@proxmox.com> (raw)
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>:
--
2.47.3
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