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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core
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Hi Christoph, Greg,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 11:10 PM
> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>; Parav Pandit
> <parav@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>; Alex Williamson
> <alex.williamson@redhat.com>; kvm@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; cohuck@redhat.com; cjia@nvidia.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core
>=20
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 09:37:21AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 02:40:02PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > > We need to ask Greg or Linus on the kernel policy on whether an API s=
hould
> exist without in-kernel driver.
>=20
> I "love" it when people try to ask a question of me and they don't actual=
ly cc:
> me.  That means they really do not want the answer (or they already know =
it...)
> Thanks Christoph for adding me here.
>=20
I pretty much knew your answer and I was just hinting Kirti that if you ask=
 Greg you would get the same answer.
So we better cleanup without reaching out to you. :-)

> The policy is that the api should not exist at all, everyone knows this, =
why is this
> even a question?
>=20
Yes, I am aware of this. Few subsystems in which I worked, it has followed =
this policy cautiously.
But when I heard different policy for mdev, I asked others wisdom.

> > > We don't add such API in netdev, rdma and possibly other subsystem.
> > > Where can we find this mdev driver in-tree?
> >
> > The clear policy is that we don't keep such symbols around.  Been
> > there done that only recently again.
>=20
> Agreed.  If anyone knows of anything else that isn't being used, we will =
be glad
> to free up the space by cleaning it up.
>=20
Ok. so this small patchset makes sense.
Thanks for the ack and direction Christoph, Greg.