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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705141453200.19682@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 May 2007 14:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] export eventfd symbols ...

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:34:53PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > > > Export eventfd kernel functions to modules.
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > 
> > KVM developers asked for it. It seem they'll be using eventfd to signal 
> > events to userspace.
> > 
> 
> yeah, there's no really easy way of doing this.  Probably it's best if
> these exports get merged via the KVM git tree, once the proposed KVM
> changes have been suitably reviewed.

That sounds reasonable.



- Davide


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