From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4D9C4332B for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161C265004 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232367AbhCJIJD (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2021 03:09:03 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:35036 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231378AbhCJIIp (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2021 03:08:45 -0500 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 92AAC68B05; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:08:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:08:42 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Max Gurtovoy Cc: jgg@nvidia.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, cohuck@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, liranl@nvidia.com, oren@nvidia.com, tzahio@nvidia.com, leonro@nvidia.com, yarong@nvidia.com, aviadye@nvidia.com, shahafs@nvidia.com, artemp@nvidia.com, kwankhede@nvidia.com, ACurrid@nvidia.com, cjia@nvidia.com, yishaih@nvidia.com, mjrosato@linux.ibm.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, hch@lst.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] vfio/pci_core: split nvlink2 to nvlink2gpu and npu2 Message-ID: <20210310080842.GA4364@lst.de> References: <20210309083357.65467-1-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com> <20210309083357.65467-8-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210309083357.65467-8-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 08:33:55AM +0000, Max Gurtovoy wrote: > This is a preparation for moving vendor specific code from > vfio_pci_core to vendor specific vfio_pci drivers. The next step will be > creating a dedicated module to NVIDIA NVLINK2 devices with P9 extensions > and a dedicated module for Power9 NPU NVLink2 HBAs. As said before - this driver always failed the "has open source user space" (which in this kind could also kernelspace in a VM) support and should just be removed entirely, including all the cruft for it in arch/powerpc.