Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] remove common iavf and idpf drivers

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 04:44:22PM +0000, Bruce Richardson 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.
> 
> v5: rebase on top of next-net-intel tree
> v4: fix meson indentation issue flagged by check-meson.py
> v3: add libabigail exclusions for removed libs
> v2: include Release note updates
> 
> Bruce Richardson (4):
>   drivers: merge common and net idpf drivers
>   net/idpf: re-enable unused variable warnings
>   drivers: move iavf common folder to iavf net
>   net/intel: allow building ice driver without iavf
> 
Series applied to dpdk-next-net-intel

/Bruce