Re: [PATCH v8 9/9] KVM: arm/arm64: Update timer and forwarded irq documentation

Marc Zyngier
2017-12-19T20:35:11Z

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:29:54 +0100
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 08:15:10PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:46:02 +0000,
> > Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > >
> > > Now when we've reworked how mapped level-triggered interrupts are
> > > processed for the timer interrupts, we update the documentation
> > > correspondingly.
> >
> > Seems like the documentation is more out of date than we thought, see
> > below.
> >
>
> Indeed. And I wondered if we should just nuke this file. The reason I
> added it originally was that the concept of "never taking the interrupt"
> was confusing to most, and we had to explain it several times over, but
> perhaps it's really not needed anymore and we should let people read the
> code instead?

Suits me (maintaining documentation is hard). I suggest we delete it
and write the perfect explanation once KVM is completely done...

M.
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