From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, dledford@redhat.com,
Sindhu Devale <sindhu.devale@intel.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jogreene@redhat.com,
Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next] i40iw/i40e: Remove link dependency on i40e
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 14:56:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180522205612.GD7502@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180522203831.20624-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:38:31PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Sindhu Devale <sindhu.devale@intel.com>
>
> Currently i40iw is dependent on i40e symbols
> i40e_register_client and i40e_unregister_client due to
> which i40iw cannot be loaded without i40e being loaded.
>
> This patch allows RDMA driver to build and load without
> linking to LAN driver and without LAN driver being loaded
> first. Once the LAN driver is loaded, the RDMA driver
> is notified through the netdevice notifiers to register
> as client to the LAN driver. Add function pointers to IDC
> register/unregister in the private VSI structure. This
> allows a RDMA driver to build without linking to i40e.
Why would you want to do this? The rdma driver is non-functional
without the ethernet driver, so why on earth would we want to defeat
the module dependency mechanism?
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-22 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-22 20:38 [net-next] i40iw/i40e: Remove link dependency on i40e Jeff Kirsher
2018-05-22 20:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2018-05-22 21:04 ` Jeff Kirsher
2018-05-22 21:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-05-22 21:50 ` Jeff Kirsher
2018-05-22 21:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-05-23 6:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-23 6:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-23 15:03 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-05-23 15:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-05-23 19:00 ` David Miller
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