RE: [PATCH v5 06/22] i40e: Register auxiliary devices to provide RDMA

["Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>]

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/22] i40e: Register auxiliary devices to provide RDMA
> 
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 03:51:46PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 09:11:58AM -0500, Shiraz Saleem wrote:
> > > Convert i40e to use the auxiliary bus infrastructure to export the
> > > RDMA functionality of the device to the RDMA driver.
> > > Register i40e client auxiliary RDMA device on the auxiliary bus per
> > > PCIe device function for the new auxiliary rdma driver (irdma) to
> > > attach to.
> > >
> > > The global i40e_register_client and i40e_unregister_client symbols
> > > will be obsoleted once irdma replaces i40iw in the kernel for the
> > > X722 device.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig            |   1 +
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h        |   2 +
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> ---
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c   |   1 +
> > >  4 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >
> > The amount of obfuscation in this driver is astonishing.
> >
> > I would expect that after this series, the i40e_client_add_*() would
> > be cleaned, for example simple grep of I40E_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR shows
> > that i40e_register_client() still have no-go code.
> 
> While it would be nice to see i40e fully cleaned I think we agreed to largely ignore it
> as-is so long as the new driver's aux implementation was sane.
> 

And for stuff like i40e_register_client and associated, I will send a cleanup patch after this series
is merged to remove it.

Shiraz