Re: [PATCH] KVM: remove vm mmap method

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Il 05/11/2013 17:12, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> > I think it is usable (perhaps not useful...) on its own, though.  It is
> > just 40 lines of self-contained code, keeping it doesn't do any harm.
>
> Usable for what?

Usable, not useful.  Perhaps someone prefers to map the guest address
space instead of using the memory areas they registrated.

> So this is just 40 lines of dead code, but it is not only dead it is
> outdated. The code around it evolved and nobody adjusted it. The
> code will fail to access memory in read only slot for instance (there
> was no read only slots back then).

You're right it's broken for RO slots.  Go ahead and zap it. :)

Paolo
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