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RDMA/netlink: Remove netlink clients infrastructure

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RDMA netlink has a complicated infrastructure for dynamically
registering and de-registering netlink clients to the NETLINK_RDMA
group. The complicated portion of this code is not widely used because
2 of the 3 current clients are statically compiled together with
netlink.c. The infrastructure, therefore, is deemed overkill.

Refactor the code to eliminate the dynamically added clients. Now all
clients are pre-registered in a client array at compile time, and at run
time they merely check-in with the infrastructure to pass their callback
table for inclusion in the pre-sized client array.

This also allows for future cleanups and removal of unneeded code in the
iwcm* netlink handler.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Chien Tin Tung <chien.tin.tung@intel.com>
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Leon Romanovsky 2017-06-05 10:20:11 +03:00 • committed by Leon Romanovsky
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