From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "JP Kobryn (Meta)" <jp.kobryn@linux.dev>
Cc: kwankhede@nvidia.com, alex@shazbot.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, malmond@meta.com,
kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfio/mdev: make VFIO_MDEV user-visible in Kconfig
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 08:33:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa7oQ8ony-5sGEFY@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260305233526.32607-1-jp.kobryn@linux.dev>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 03:35:26PM -0800, JP Kobryn (Meta) wrote:
> From: JP Kobryn <jp.kobryn@linux.dev>
>
> VFIO_MDEV is currently hidden and only enabled via select by in-tree
> consumers. Out-of-tree drivers such as the NVIDIA vGPU rely on the mdev
> framework but have no way to trigger its selection.
>
> Add a description and help text to make VFIO_MDEV visible and directly
> selectable.
Just as last time: no. out of tree drivers don't matter to the kernel,
and add totally pointless user visible options for them is of course
a no-go.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-09 15:33 UTC|newest]
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2026-03-05 23:35 JP Kobryn (Meta)
2026-03-09 15:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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