[Intel-wired-lan] [iwl-next v4 1/1] iidc/ice/irdma: Update IDC to support multiple consumers

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at nvidia.com
Tue Mar 18 17:20:26 UTC 2025


On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 10:01:36AM -0700, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:

> Yes. Today irdma uses exported symbols from i40e and ice and loading irdma
> results in both modules to be loaded even when only type of NIC is present
> on a system. This series is trying to remove that dependency by using
> callbacks.

If you really have two different core drivers that can provide the
same API then I think you are stuck with function pointers :\

It is really weird though, why are their two core drivers that can
provide the same API? Is this because intel keeps rewriting their
driver stack every few years?

Jason


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