On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 14:56 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > 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?
This change is driven by the OSV's like Red Hat, where customer's were updating the i40e driver, which in turn broke i40iw.
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