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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