On 11/23/2016 10:21 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:49:33 +0300 > Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com> wrote: > >> I've tried to explain it above in item (2): >> >> >>> >> >> 2. Another Solarflare PMD with in-kernel part (for control operations) >> is considered and could be added in the future. Code for data path >> should be shared by these two drivers. libefx-based PMD is put into >> 'efx' subdirectory to have a space for another PMD and shared code. >> >> <<< >> >> So, main reason is to have location for the code shared by two Solarflare >> network PMDs. May be it better to relocate when we really have it. >> I'm open for other ideas/suggestions. > So is this driver dependent on another non-upstream kernel driver to work?
No, this driver does not have any external dependencies. > Is this documented in docs directory. If it does depend on other non-upstream > components, then the default config should disable the driver. Andrew.
