RDMA/netlink: Remove netlink clients infrastructure

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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h b/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
index 5b1466770917..aadf0ab963b2 100644
--- a/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
+++ b/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
@@ -11,23 +11,18 @@ struct ibnl_client_cbs {
 };
 
 /**
- * Add a a client to the list of IB netlink exporters.
+ * Register client in RDMA netlink.
  * @index: Index of the added client
- * @nops: Number of supported ops by the added client.
  * @cb_table: A table for op->callback
- *
- * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code.
  */
-int ibnl_add_client(int index, int nops,
-		    const struct ibnl_client_cbs cb_table[]);
+void rdma_nl_register(unsigned int index,
+		      const struct ibnl_client_cbs cb_table[]);
 
 /**
  * Remove a client from IB netlink.
  * @index: Index of the removed IB client.
- *
- * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code.
  */
-int ibnl_remove_client(int index);
+void rdma_nl_unregister(unsigned int index);
 
 /**
  * Put a new message in a supplied skb.