On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 04:01:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > the nvlink2 vfio subdriver is a weird beast. It supports a hardware > feature without any open source component - what would normally be > the normal open source userspace that we require for kernel drivers, > although in this particular case user space could of course be a > kernel driver in a VM. It also happens to be a complete mess that > does not properly bind to PCI IDs, is hacked into the vfio_pci driver > and also pulles in over 1000 lines of code always build into powerpc > kernels that have Power NV support enabled. Because of all these > issues and the lack of breaking userspace when it is removed I think > the best idea is to simply kill. > > Diffstat: > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c | 705 --------------------------- > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h | 3 > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h | 1 > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h | 7 > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/Makefile | 2 > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-call.c | 2 > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 185 ------- > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.c | 11 > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h | 17 > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pci.c | 23 > b/drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig | 6 > b/drivers/vfio/pci/Makefile | 1 > b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 18 > b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h | 14 > b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 40 - > drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c | 490 ------------------ > 16 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1517 deletions(-) I thought this was supposed to be removed a few years ago! Anyway, no objection from me: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
