Re: [patch 1/1] export eventfd symbols ...

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon May 14 2007 - 17:51:55 EST


On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:34:53PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > > Export eventfd kernel functions to modules.
> >
> > Why?
>
> KVM developers asked for it. It seem they'll be using eventfd to signal
> events to userspace.
>

yeah, there's no really easy way of doing this. Probably it's best if
these exports get merged via the KVM git tree, once the proposed KVM
changes have been suitably reviewed.
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