On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 06:59:52PM -0500, Shiraz Saleem wrote:

From: Mustafa Ismail <redacted>

Register auxiliary drivers which can attach to auxiliary RDMA
devices from Intel PCI netdev drivers i40e and ice. Implement the private
channel ops, and register net notifiers.

Signed-off-by: Mustafa Ismail <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Shiraz Saleem <redacted>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/i40iw_if.c | 229 +++++++++++++
 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.c     | 382 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.h     | 565 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 1176 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/i40iw_if.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.h

<...>

+/* client interface functions */
+static const struct i40e_client_ops i40e_ops = {
+	.open = i40iw_open,
+	.close = i40iw_close,
+	.l2_param_change = i40iw_l2param_change
+};
+
+static struct i40e_client i40iw_client = {
+	.ops = &i40e_ops,
+	.type = I40E_CLIENT_IWARP,
+};
+
+static int i40iw_probe(struct auxiliary_device *aux_dev, const struct auxiliary_device_id *id)
+{
+	struct i40e_auxiliary_device *i40e_adev = container_of(aux_dev,
+							       struct i40e_auxiliary_device,
+							       aux_dev);
+	struct i40e_info *cdev_info = i40e_adev->ldev;
+
+	strncpy(i40iw_client.name, "irdma", I40E_CLIENT_STR_LENGTH);
+	cdev_info->client = &i40iw_client;
+	cdev_info->aux_dev = aux_dev;
+
+	return cdev_info->ops->client_device_register(cdev_info);

Why do we need all this indirection? I see it as leftover from previous
version where you mixed auxdev with your peer registration logic.

Thanks