A subdirectory inside Intel's ICE Ethernet driver tree (which supports the E810 and related 100GbE controllers) that holds internal helper code for SR-IOV and virtual function support. It is not a standalone driver and does not bind to hardware on its own.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is an internal source subdirectory of the Intel ICE 100GbE Ethernet driver that groups together virtualization-related helper code. It only makes sense as part of the parent ice driver and should be evaluated together with it rather than on its own.
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Not a driver directory: `drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/virt` is a subdirectory of the Intel ICE driver tree and, from the path/static metadata, appears to contain internal virtualization support code rather than a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.