netdev - RE: [PATCH iwl-next 00/14] Introduce iXD driver

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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:23:36 +0000
From: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH iwl-next 00/14] Introduce iXD driver



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lobakin, Aleksander <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 8:49 AM
> To: Zaremba, Larysa <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>
> Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org; Nguyen, Anthony L
> <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>; David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>;
> Dumazet, Eric <edumazet@...gle.com>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>;
> Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>; Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>;
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>; Kitszel, Przemyslaw
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> <mustafa.ismail@...el.com>; Nikolova, Tatyana E
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> Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>; Samudrala, Sridhar
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> Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>; Polchlopek, Mateusz
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> Chittim, Madhu <madhu.chittim@...el.com>; Hay, Joshua A
> <joshua.a.hay@...el.com>; Olech, Milena <milena.olech@...el.com>; Linga,
> Pavan Kumar <pavan.kumar.linga@...el.com>; Singhai, Anjali
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next 00/14] Introduce iXD driver
> 
> From: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 14:47:46 +0200
> 
> > This patch series adds the iXD driver, which supports the Intel(R)
> > Control Plane PCI Function on Intel E2100 and later IPUs and FNICs.
> > It facilitates a centralized control over multiple IDPF PFs/VFs/SFs
> > exposed by the same card. The reason for the separation is to be able
> > to offload the control plane to the host different from where the data
> > plane is running.
> 
> BTW please move everything you're adding to libeth to libie instead.
> This PCI/VC/CP functionality is unlikely to be used by other vendors.
> Since libie_cp.ko or how you may want to call it won't link with base
> libie.ko, it won't have any pre-idpf HW-specific symbols, so that idpf
> could link with it.
> libeth stuff is purely vendor-agnostic and I'd really like to keep it so.
> 
> Thanks,
> Olek

I agree with this too.

Thanks,
Jake