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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>
Cc: intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	zhiyuan.lv@intel.com, hang.yuan@intel.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Support for out-of-tree hypervisor modules in i915/gvt
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:18:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200114091807.GA12664@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200109171357.115936-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 07:13:53PM +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> These patch series removes the dependency of i915/gvt hypervisor
> backends on the driver internals of the i915 driver. Instead, we add a
> small public API that hypervisor backends can use.
> 
> This enables out-of-tree hypervisor backends for the Intel graphics
> virtualization and simplifies development. At the same time, it
> creates at least a bit of a barrier to including more i915 internals
> into kvmgt, which is nice in itself.

Err, hell no.  This is not how Linux kernel development works.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-14  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4079ce7c26a2d2a3c7e0828ed1ea6008d6e2c805.camel@cyberus-technology.de>
2020-01-09 17:13 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Support for out-of-tree hypervisor modules in i915/gvt Julian Stecklina
2020-01-09 17:13   ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] drm/i915/gvt: make gvt oblivious of kvmgt data structures Julian Stecklina
2020-01-20  6:22     ` Zhenyu Wang
2020-01-20  6:33       ` Zhenyu Wang
2020-01-20 17:25         ` [PATCH] " Julian Stecklina
2020-01-09 17:13   ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] drm/i915/gvt: remove unused vblank_done completion Julian Stecklina
2020-01-20  6:23     ` Zhenyu Wang
2020-01-09 17:13   ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] drm/i915/gvt: define a public interface to gvt Julian Stecklina
2020-01-09 17:13   ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] drm/i915/gvt: move public gvt headers out into global include Julian Stecklina
2020-01-15 15:22     ` Greg KH
2020-01-16 14:13       ` Julian Stecklina
2020-01-16 14:23         ` Greg KH
2020-01-16 15:05           ` Julian Stecklina
2020-01-16 19:48             ` Greg KH
2020-01-17  2:15         ` Zhenyu Wang
2020-01-14  9:18   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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