Re: [PATCH] VFIO: remove dead notifier code

[Alex Williamson]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:10:06 -0300
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 07:59:34PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > group->notifier is dead code. VFIO initializes it and checks it for emptiness on
> > teardown, but nobody ever registers on it or triggers it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/arch/s390/vfio-ap.rst | 18 ++++++------------
> >  drivers/vfio/group.c                |  3 ---
> >  drivers/vfio/vfio.h                 |  1 -
> >  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c     |  1 -
> >  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)  
> 
>  Fixes: 421cfe6596f6 ("vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM")
> 
> ?

Technically yes, but is it really worth having stable pick this up?
Seems not.  Thanks,

Alex