On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 01:06:11PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > I agree with all of the above, but unfortunately blacklisting is really > the only benefit that would be realized by modularizing the driver. The > "driver" at this point is just the device and its ioctls, the meat of > the functionality has been moved into the subsystem proper. And the few > remaining tidbits of functionality, e.g. sgx_encl_page_alloc() and > sgx_encl_alloc(), probably should be moved out of ioctl.c as well. That is kind of core reason of having an LKM here, to wrap the uapi. It is not about reducing size of the kernel. It is about ability to tailor the uapi on stock kernels. /Jarkko
