A shared internal code library used by Intel's Ethernet drivers (such as i40e, ice, and idpf) to avoid duplicating common logic like Rx buffer handling and hardware feature definitions across each individual NIC driver.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is a helper library that other Intel Ethernet drivers link against. It has no hardware of its own to support or deprecate, and its fate is tied to the Intel NIC drivers that consume it.
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Not a driver directory: `drivers/net/ethernet/intel/libie` is an internal Intel Ethernet helper library (`lib*` naming, no standalone driver marker in the directory summary), not a kernel-bound hardware driver directory.