netdev - Re: [Resend RFC PATCH V2 04/12] HV: Add Write/Read MSR registers via ghcb

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Message-ID: <d35e6ab5-cb25-61aa-e36e-7e4bcb241964@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:19:45 +0800
From:   Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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Subject: Re: [Resend RFC PATCH V2 04/12] HV: Add Write/Read MSR registers via
 ghcb

On 4/14/2021 11:41 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_ghcb_msr_write);
> 
> Just curious, who is going to use all these exports?  These seems like
> extremely low-level functionality.  Isn't there a way to build a more
> useful higher level API?
>

Yes, will remove it.