[PATCH v3 0/4] remove common iavf and idpf drivers

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> The iavf and idpf common directories were used only to share code
> between multiple net drivers and did not need to be drivers in their own
> right, since it is just as easy to have a dependency from one net driver
> on another as a net driver on a common one.
>
> This patchset therefore aims to eliminate the two unnecessary common
> drivers. It does so as follows:
>
> * merging common/idpf into net/idpf and updating the cpfl dependency to
>   point to the net driver.
> * merging common/iavf into net/iavf and similarly updating the
>   dependencies, including the paths from idpf (which does not directly
>   depend on iavf, but does make use of the definitions in the iavf
>   header files).
>
> Separately, two other cleanups are done - one to remove an unnecessary
> warning disable flag. The second is a little more complex - it makes the
> dependency between ice and iavf an optional one, by having ice compile
> in the necessary iavf shared code files in case iavf is disabled in the
> build.
>
> v3: add libabigail exclusions for removed libs
> v2: include Release note updates

v3 has some meson style issues.
UNH is picky about this as it (recently started to?) runs check-meson.py.

$ ./devtools/check-meson.py
Error: Incorrect indent at drivers/net/intel/ice/meson.build:29
Error: Incorrect indent at drivers/net/intel/ice/meson.build:30
Error: Incorrect indent at drivers/net/intel/ice/meson.build:31


-- 
David Marchand