Re: [PATCH iwl-next 00/14] Introduce iXD driver

Alexander Lobakin
2025-04-16T15:49:17Z

From: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 14:47:46 +0200

> This patch series adds the iXD driver, which supports the Intel(R)
> Control Plane PCI Function on Intel E2100 and later IPUs and FNICs.
> It facilitates a centralized control over multiple IDPF PFs/VFs/SFs
> exposed by the same card. The reason for the separation is to be able
> to offload the control plane to the host different from where the data
> plane is running.

BTW please move everything you're adding to libeth to libie instead.
This PCI/VC/CP functionality is unlikely to be used by other vendors.
Since libie_cp.ko or how you may want to call it won't link with base
libie.ko, it won't have any pre-idpf HW-specific symbols, so that idpf
could link with it.
libeth stuff is purely vendor-agnostic and I'd really like to keep it so.

Thanks,
Olek