linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 14/18] vfio: move eventfd support code for VFIO

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Message-ID: <CAG8rG2ztdXWJ=0D6i_PuqD6rrLWJe+P7FS2CS=i11D=u1hX6tQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:56:31 +0200
From:	Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com>
To:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:	kvm-arm <kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>,
	Linux IOMMU <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	VirtualOpenSystems Technical Team <tech@...tualopensystems.com>,
	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
	Eric Auger <eric.auger@...aro.org>,
	Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@...escale.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...hat.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"open list:VFIO DRIVER" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 14/18] vfio: move eventfd support code for VFIO_PCI to
 a separate file

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Alex Williamson
<alex.williamson@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 15:10 +0200, Antonios Motakis wrote:
>> The virqfd functionality that is used by VFIO_PCI to implement interrupt
>> masking and unmasking via an eventfd, is generic enough and can be reused
>> by another driver. Move it to a separate file in order to allow the code
>> to be shared.
>>
>> Also properly export virqfd_enable and virqfd_disable in the process.
>
> Let's be friendly to the global namespace and add vfio_ prefixes to
> these as we export them.
>

Ack.



-- 
Antonios Motakis
Virtual Open Systems
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