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SubjectRe: [PATCH v17 18/23] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver
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> On Nov 19, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>

Once static_call lands, this will be a great use for it.
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