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Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq and kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic

From David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq and kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic
Date 2016-11-18 19:30 +0100
Message-ID <sEW5b-2jW-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Am 17.11.2016 um 15:55 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> kvm_arch_set_irq is unused since commit b97e6de9c96.  Merge
> its functionality with kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic.
>
> Reported-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---

As you said, it is unused. Therefore the functionality is superfluous. 
Why merge it?

We can still introduce this later if we ever need it. Or do you have a 
concrete user in mind?

The patch in general looks good to me. Just wondering if we can't simply 
rip out that single function.

-- 

David

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[PATCH] kvm: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq and kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq and  kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 19:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq and  kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 20:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq and  kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 20:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq and  kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-11-19 20:40 +0100

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