> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
> Jacob Keller
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 7:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next 4/4] iavf: delete the iavf 
> client
> interface
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/16/2023 9:48 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> > The iavf client interface was added in 2017 by commit ed0e894de7c1
> > ("i40evf: add client interface"), but there have never been any
> > in-tree callers.
> >
> > It's not useful for future development either. The Intel out-of-tree
> > iavf and irdma drivers instead use an auxiliary bus, which is a better
> > solution.
> >
> > Remove the iavf client interface code. Also gone are the client_task
> > work and the client_lock mutex.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <[email protected]>
> > ---
> 
> Yea this interface is not supported by any current out-of-tree driver I could
> find either. From what I can tell the last version of out-of-tree iAVF which
> shipped this interface was 2021, iavf 4.2.1, which appears to have released in
> 2021.
> 
> I was unable to determine when the last time any software which used this
> interface was supported... It appears to have never been used in-tree at all.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
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