linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] lib: Allow for the DIM library to be modular

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Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 14:36:54 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
Cc: Heng Qi <hengqi@...ux.alibaba.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 jgg@...dia.com, leonro@...dia.com, Andrew Morton
 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Tal Gilboa <talgi@...dia.com>, "open
 list:LIBRARY CODE" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] lib: Allow for the DIM library to be modular

On Thu, 2 May 2024 20:19:27 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Looking at "[PATCH net-next v11 0/4] ethtool: provide the dim profile 
> fine-tuning channel" it seems like Heng took care of making all of the 
> newly added functions EXPORT_SYMBOL(). The only thing I see missing is a 
> "select DIMLIB" from config ETHTOOL_NETLINK, do you see something else?

I think we refer to the default DIM tables from net/core/ to clone
them at init time. But we can move the init function into DIM itself.
That's probably for the better.