Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver

[Gleb Natapov]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 06:15:54PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > While it is possible that userspace malfunctions and accidentally programs
> > MSI incorrectly, the risk is dwarfed by the ability of userspace to program
> > DMA incorrectly.
> 
> That seems to imply that for the upstream kernel this is not a valid usecase at all.
> 
Are you implying that uio_pci_generic should be removed from upstream
kernel because Avi did not describe anything that cannot be done with
upstream kernel right now.

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			Gleb.
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