From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
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 v1 2/2] vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev UUID
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 11:28:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190807112801.6b2ceb36.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806141826.52712-3-parav@mellanox.com>
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 09:18:26 -0500
Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com> wrote:
> There is no single production driver who is interested in mdev device
> uuid. Currently UUID is mainly used to derive a device name.
> Additionally mdev device name is already available using core kernel
> API dev_name().
Well, the mdev code actually uses the uuid to check for duplicates
before registration with the driver core would fail... I'd just drop
the two sentences talking about the device name, IMHO they don't really
add useful information; but I'll leave that decision to the maintainers.
>
> Hence removed unused exported symbol.
>
> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
> ---
> Changelog:
> v0->v1:
> - Updated commit log to address comments from Cornelia
> ---
> drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 6 ------
> include/linux/mdev.h | 1 -
> 2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-07 9:28 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
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 [this message]
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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