From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jon Kohler <jon@nutanix.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
Rohit Shenoy <rshenoy@nvidia.com>,
Tarun Gupta <targupta@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfio-mdev: reinstate VFIO_MDEV Kconfig
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:20:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240916072030.GC16514@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A26B654-51D0-4007-919C-F1934BD0DFEE@nutanix.com>
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 03:32:52PM +0000, Jon Kohler wrote:
> Christoph - thanks for the swift reply, I appreciate it. To clarify slightly,
> MDEV does have various exported symbols in MDEV, with both regular
> EXPORT_SYMBOL and _GPL variant; however, there is just no way to
> consume them out of tree without this patch, unless there is also
> incidentally another in-tree module that has select VFIO_MDEV set.
The point of kernel infrastructure is not to consume it out of tree.
Get your driver upstream and fully participate instead wasting your
time on this kind of stuff please.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-16 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-12 14:19 [PATCH] vfio-mdev: reinstate VFIO_MDEV Kconfig Jon Kohler
2024-09-12 14:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-09-12 15:32 ` Jon Kohler
2024-09-16 7:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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