On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:38:31PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > From: Sindhu Devale <sindhu.dev...@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
