linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfio/pci: remove vfio_pci

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Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2021 13:38:05 -0600
From:   Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfio/pci: remove vfio_pci_nvlink2

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:13:10 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:

> This driver never had any open userspace (which for VFIO would include
> VM kernel drivers) that use it, and thus should never have been added
> by our normal userspace ABI rules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig            |   6 -
>  drivers/vfio/pci/Makefile           |   1 -
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c         |  18 -
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c | 490 ----------------------------
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h |  14 -
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h           |  38 +--
>  6 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 563 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c

Hearing no objections, applied to vfio next branch for v5.13.  Thanks,

Alex