Re: [PATCH v17 18/23] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Nov 19 2018 - 12:19:45 EST


On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 04:22:54PM +0000, Jethro Beekman wrote:
> On 2018-11-19 20:36, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Question: should be dissolve the driver completely and move this code to
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ (and rename intel_sgx.c as main.c)? Swapping
> > patch removes the possibility to compile this as a module anyway.
>
> No. We should keep the capability to build this as a module for other users
> of SGX. What is the swapping patch and why doesn't allow building as a
> module?

In some earlier version of the patch set the request was to remove the
callback interface to the driver so now core does direct calls to the
swapping operations.

/Jarkko