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=-7.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS 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 A0837C63793 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:16:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8169B61353 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:16:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231997AbhGVMft (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2021 08:35:49 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39936 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230418AbhGVMfq (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2021 08:35:46 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3188261003; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:16:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1626959780; bh=CrztZNaKVjON/d/4c724HSYw6X0K63o+ecpeTn4t92Q=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=twohJJ8smdG94+ivCw6JHpWyxc/qnlszhBccWg+IT0PNCF6RLAbwgvtAb4DN2qECG 1blRjx5cbIoNeAlvlElPmqUE78cShdo48RyrAA0wLts+zAOpVLveOXrx4KpCvFVSMQ 02DnOiltWrfxfI2rKpgeeftVW5Yy+cB37A0sQmus= Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:16:17 +0200 From: Greg KH To: "Wang, Zhi A" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jani Nikula , Joonas Lahtinen , "Vivi, Rodrigo" , Zhenyu Wang , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" , "intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org" , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: refactor the i915 GVT support Message-ID: References: <20210721155355.173183-1-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:49:47AM +0000, Wang, Zhi A wrote: > But it's hard for some customers to contribute their own "hypervisor" > module to the upstream Linux kernel. What prevents them from doing this? We will take any code that meets our standards, what format is this external code in? > I am thinking what would be a > better solution here? The MPT layer in the kernel helps a lot for > customers, but only one open-source "hypervisor" module is there in > the kernel. That can confuse people which don't know the story. One > thing I was thinking is to put a document about the background and > more description in the MPT headers. So it won't confuse more people. If no one is using it in the kernel, it needs to be removed. No abstractions should be added that are not required by the in-tree code. So this series should be accepted, _or_ the external code needs to be submitted for inclusion. thanks, greg k-h