From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] export eventfd symbols ...
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:54:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705141453200.19682@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070514145137.30e6d019.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:34:53PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > > > Export eventfd kernel functions to modules.
> > >
> > > Why?
> >
> > KVM developers asked for it. It seem they'll be using eventfd to signal
> > events to userspace.
> >
>
> yeah, there's no really easy way of doing this. Probably it's best if
> these exports get merged via the KVM git tree, once the proposed KVM
> changes have been suitably reviewed.
That sounds reasonable.
- Davide
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-14 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 21:34 Davide Libenzi
2007-05-14 21:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-14 21:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-14 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-14 21:54 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
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