From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
<boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/p2m: Export set_phys_to_machine.
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 17:07:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5229FDCC.5000705@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378476042-4821-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
On 06/09/13 15:00, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> We have already exported 'get_phys_to_machine' and there are
> third-party drivers that depend on this other symbol. As such
> lets make this balanced and also export this symbol.
I'm not sure this is a good idea. It isn't clear why any out of tree
driver would need to mess with the p2m (or that we would actually trust
a third party driver to do this correctly...).
Also, the general kernel policy is not to export symbols that aren't
used by something in the kernel tree itself.
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 14:00 [PATCH] xen/p2m: Export set_phys_to_machine Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-09-06 14:06 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2013-09-06 14:39 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-09-06 14:49 ` Jan Beulich
2013-09-06 16:07 ` David Vrabel [this message]
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