# Re: \[PATCH 1/2\] vfio/pci: remove vfio\_pci\_nvlink2

- From: Alex Williamson \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-04-06 19:38:27 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/04/6328667
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dri-devel/2021/04/6328667/t.md

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On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:13:10 +0100
Christoph Hellwig [ref] wrote:

> This driver never had any open userspace (which for VFIO would include
> VM kernel drivers) that use it, and thus should never have been added
> by our normal userspace ABI rules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig            |   6 -
>  drivers/vfio/pci/Makefile           |   1 -
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c         |  18 -
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c | 490 ----------------------------
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h |  14 -
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h           |  38 +--
>  6 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 563 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c

Hearing no objections, applied to vfio next branch for v5.13.  Thanks,

Alex

```