Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev UUID

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue,  6 Aug 2019 09:18:26 -0500
Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is no single production driver who is interested in mdev device
> uuid. Currently UUID is mainly used to derive a device name.
> Additionally mdev device name is already available using core kernel
> API dev_name().

Well, the mdev code actually uses the uuid to check for duplicates
before registration with the driver core would fail... I'd just drop
the two sentences talking about the device name, IMHO they don't really
add useful information; but I'll leave that decision to the maintainers.

> 
> Hence removed unused exported symbol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changelog:
> v0->v1:
>  - Updated commit log to address comments from Cornelia
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 6 ------
>  include/linux/mdev.h          | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>