On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 03:52:13PM +0530, Devesh Sharma wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:27 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Changelog: > > v2: > > * kbuild spotted that I didn't delete all code in patch #5, so deleted > > even more ulp_ops derefences. > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20210329085212.257771-1-leon@xxxxxxxxxx > > * Go much deeper and removed useless ULP indirection > > v0: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20210324142524.1135319-1-leon@xxxxxxxxxx > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > The following series fixes issue spotted in [1], where bnxt_re driver > > messed with module reference counting in order to implement symbol > > dependency of bnxt_re and bnxt modules. All of this is done, when in > > upstream we have only one ULP user of that bnxt module. The simple > > declaration of exported symbol would do the trick. > > > > This series removes that custom module_get/_put, which is not supposed > > to be in the driver from the beginning and get rid of nasty indirection > > logic that isn't relevant for the upstream code. > > > > Such small changes allow us to simplify the bnxt code and my hope that > > Devesh will continue where I stopped and remove struct bnxt_ulp_ops too. > > > > Thanks > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20210324142524.1135319-1-leon@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > Leon Romanovsky (5): > > RDMA/bnxt_re: Depend on bnxt ethernet driver and not blindly select it > > RDMA/bnxt_re: Create direct symbolic link between bnxt modules > > RDMA/bnxt_re: Get rid of custom module reference counting > > net/bnxt: Remove useless check of non-existent ULP id > > net/bnxt: Use direct API instead of useless indirection > > > > drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/Kconfig | 4 +- > > drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c | 93 ++----- > > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 4 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 1 - > > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ulp.c | 245 +++++++----------- > > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ulp.h | 32 +-- > > 6 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 260 deletions(-) > > Hi Leon, > > After a couple of internal discussions we reached a conclusion to > implement the Auxbus driver interface and fix the problem once and for > all. Thanks Devesh, Jason, it looks like we can proceed with this patchset, because in auxbus mode this module refcount and ULP indirection logics will be removed anyway. Thanks > > > > -- > > 2.30.2 > > > > > -- > -Regards > Devesh
