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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] PCI/P2PDMA: Export pci_p2pdma_map_type() function
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:13:21AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 10:03:13AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 04:00:06PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> > > 
> > > Export the pci_p2pdma_map_type() function to allow external modules
> > > and subsystems to determine the appropriate mapping type for P2PDMA
> > > transfers between a provider and target device.
> > 
> > External modules have no business doing this.
> 
> VFIO PCI code is built as module. There is no way to access PCI p2p code
> without exporting functions in it.

We never ever export anything for "external" modules, and you really
should know that.