RE: [PATCH 4/4] drivers:pci:hv: New paravirtual PCI front-end for Hyper-V VMs

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Aug 03 2015 - 15:44:02 EST


On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Jake Oshins wrote:

> I do have a question about your last point, though. If I build this
> into the kernel, it will need to depend on sending and receiving
> messages through the hv_vmbus driver, which isn't built in. It

Fair enough. I missed that detail.

> seemed like the indirection and glue code necessary to make that
> work would be almost as big as this entire implementation (which
> admittedly isn't very big.) If you prefer that, I'll do it. But it
> would make more sense to me to refactor this a bit more so that
> functions like the one above are exported rather than putting
> hv_pcie_init_irq_domain and hv_pcie_free_irq_domain into the kernel
> itself. Would that work?

Yes.

Thanks,

tglx
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