> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Bolle [mailto:pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 1:44 AM > To: Jake Oshins > Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; KY Srinivasan; linux- > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; > apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx; Mike Ebersol; Haiyang Zhang > Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] drivers:pci:hv: New paravirtual PCI front-end for > Hyper-V VMs > > Greg has already asked you to resend. So here follow a few remarks to > take into account for that resend. > Thank you. I'll fix everything you've mentioned before resending. I do have one more question, below. > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(hv_read_config_block); > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(hv_write_config_block); > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(hv_register_block_invalidate); > > I couldn't spot any users of these exports. Actually, I couldn't even > spot any users of these three functions. Why were they added? > This driver is intended to support both full PCI Express device pass through and also be the basis for SR-IOV networking on top of Hyper-V. These functions would allow somebody trying to make their NIC driver work on top of Hyper-V to exchange messages with their back-end Windows driver. My question is this. How does somebody delivering a platform usually work with the Linux community to deliver enablement code like this? I'm trying to work in the open, and go upstream early (or at least I think that understand what these things mean.) If the community doesn't want functions that have no callers (and I understand that, too) then how should I provide them to the NIC vendors? Thanks, Jake Oshins ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���"�)�� jg��� �����ݢj����G���� ���j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥
