Re: [Xen-devel] xen/mem-reservation API and out-of-tree kernel modules

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 08:38:43AM +0000, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> On 2/1/19 10:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 01:44:15PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >> The alternative would be to turn xenmem_reservation_scrub_page into a
> >> regular function (not a static inline)?
> > All that is a moot point until said currently out of tree module gets
> > submitted for inclusion anyway.
> Indeed this is a moot point, so I can't argue here.
> But this is how it is and unfortunately we have to live
> with those modules and depend on 3rd parties willing or not
> to disclose their sources to public...

The point is that the kernel does generally not export interfaces
not used by in-tree modules.  So there is no reason to change anything
here.