Re: [PATCH] VFIO: remove dead notifier code

Alex Williamson
2026-04-13T21:58:38Z

On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 19:59:34 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:

> group->notifier is dead code. VFIO initializes it and checks it for emptiness on
> teardown, but nobody ever registers on it or triggers it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
> Documentation/arch/s390/vfio-ap.rst | 18 ++++++------------
> drivers/vfio/group.c | 3 ---
> drivers/vfio/vfio.h | 1 -
> drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 1 -
> 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Applied to vfio next branch for v7.1. Thanks,

Alex