From: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"wankhede@nvidia.com" <wankhede@nvidia.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"alex.williamson@redhat.com" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"cjia@nvidia.com" <cjia@nvidia.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev name
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 13:12:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR05MB4866138959913DE9979E3688D1D50@AM0PR05MB4866.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806102902.3e09ab1a.cohuck@redhat.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 1:59 PM
> To: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org; wankhede@nvidia.com; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; alex.williamson@redhat.com; cjia@nvidia.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for
> mdev name
>
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 01:59:05 -0500
> Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com> wrote:
>
> > There is no single production driver who is interested in mdev device
> > name.
> > Additionally mdev device name is already available using core kernel
> > API dev_name().
>
> The patch description is a bit confusing: You talk about removing an api to
> access the device name, but what you are actually removing is the api to access
> the device's uuid. That uuid is, of course, used to generate the device name, but
> the two are not the same. Using
> dev_name() gives you a string containing the uuid, not the uuid.
>
> >
> > Hence removed unused exported symbol.
>
> I'm not really against removing this api if no driver has interest in the device's
> uuid (and I'm currently not seeing why they would need it; we can easily add it
> back, should the need arise); but this needs a different description.
>
Ok. I understand that uuid and dev_name() are not same.
I will update the commit description.
Sending v1.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 6 ------
> > include/linux/mdev.h | 1 -
> > 2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c
> > b/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c index b558d4cfd082..c2b809cbe59f
> > 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c
> > @@ -57,12 +57,6 @@ struct mdev_device *mdev_from_dev(struct device
> > *dev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdev_from_dev);
> >
> > -const guid_t *mdev_uuid(struct mdev_device *mdev) -{
> > - return &mdev->uuid;
> > -}
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdev_uuid);
> > -
> > /* Should be called holding parent_list_lock */ static struct
> > mdev_parent *__find_parent_device(struct device *dev) { diff --git
> > a/include/linux/mdev.h b/include/linux/mdev.h index
> > 0ce30ca78db0..375a5830c3d8 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mdev.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mdev.h
> > @@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ struct mdev_driver {
> >
> > void *mdev_get_drvdata(struct mdev_device *mdev); void
> > mdev_set_drvdata(struct mdev_device *mdev, void *data); -const guid_t
> > *mdev_uuid(struct mdev_device *mdev);
> >
> > extern struct bus_type mdev_bus_type;
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-06 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-02 6:59 [PATCH 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core Parav Pandit
2019-08-02 6:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfio-mdev/mtty: Simplify interrupt generation Parav Pandit
2019-08-06 8:15 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-02 6:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev name Parav Pandit
2019-08-06 8:29 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-06 13:12 ` Parav Pandit [this message]
2019-08-06 14:18 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core Parav Pandit
2019-08-06 14:18 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] vfio-mdev/mtty: Simplify interrupt generation Parav Pandit
2019-08-06 14:18 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev UUID Parav Pandit
2019-08-07 9:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-07 16:33 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-08 8:29 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-08 14:01 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-08 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core Parav Pandit
2019-08-08 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] vfio-mdev/mtty: Simplify interrupt generation Parav Pandit
2019-08-13 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-23 20:48 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-08 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev UUID Parav Pandit
2019-08-13 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 15:22 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-08 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core Alex Williamson
2019-08-09 8:07 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-12 11:35 ` Kirti Wankhede
2019-08-13 14:40 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-13 14:52 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-13 16:28 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-13 16:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-13 17:11 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-14 5:54 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-14 8:01 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-14 12:27 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-14 13:09 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-14 13:45 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-14 14:57 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-14 16:21 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-20 8:58 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-20 9:58 ` Christophe de Dinechin
2019-08-20 11:25 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-20 16:31 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-21 2:42 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-20 17:19 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-20 17:55 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-21 3:57 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-21 3:42 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-21 4:20 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-21 4:40 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-21 4:57 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-21 5:01 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-21 5:26 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-21 6:23 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-22 9:29 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-22 9:42 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-22 9:58 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-22 10:04 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-22 12:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-22 13:33 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-23 8:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-23 8:14 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-23 14:28 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-23 14:53 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-23 15:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-23 15:52 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-23 16:14 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-23 17:16 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-23 18:00 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-23 19:43 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-24 3:56 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-24 4:45 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-24 4:59 ` Alex Williamson
2019-08-24 5:22 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-13 16:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-13 17:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-14 5:30 ` Parav Pandit
2019-08-13 14:48 ` Parav Pandit
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