linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/Kconfig: additional help text for HMM

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:15:46 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, <john.hubbard@...il.com>
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/Kconfig: additional help text for HMM_MIRROR option

On 7/18/19 9:34 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:32:53PM -0700, john.hubbard@...il.com wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
...
>> +	  Select HMM_MIRROR if you have hardware that meets the above
>> +	  description. An early, partial list of such hardware is:
>> +	  an NVIDIA GPU >= Pascal, Mellanox IB >= mlx5, or an AMD GPU.
> 
> I don't think we want to put device information here.  If we want that
> information in Kconfig best to put it in the devices themselves.  Otherwise
> this list will get stale.
> 
> Other than that, looks good.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> 

Hi Ira, thanks for the review, I'll remove that last sentence. I'll post a v2
with your reviewed by tag, in a new email thread. But first I'll wait to see 
if there are other replies.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA