linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Move intel_iommu

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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:03:23 +0800
From:   Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Move intel_iommu_ops to header file

On 2/15/22 5:51 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 09:31:37AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
>> On 2/14/22 9:27 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 04:12:40PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>>> +extern const struct iommu_ops intel_iommu_ops;
> 
>>> The intel_iommu_ops symbol is only used in drivers/iommu/intel, so I
>>> would prefer a header in that directory. But I leave that up to Baolu to
>>> decide.
>>
>> Agreed. I also have a plan to split them out into a internal header.
> 
> The above change is hanging for more than a year, can we apply it and then
> you can do a split?
> 

Yeah. This is my plan. The include/linux/intel-iommu.h also keeps other
internal only helpers. It worth a separated cleanup patch.

Best regards,
baolu