Internal support code for VDO (Virtual Data Optimizer), a device-mapper target that provides inline deduplication and compression for Linux block storage. The indexer subdirectory holds the deduplication index (UDS) logic that VDO uses to spot duplicate data blocks; it is software, not a driver for any piece of hardware.
This is not actually a hardware driver. It is a helper library inside the dm-vdo device-mapper target that implements the deduplication index used to identify duplicate blocks. It lives or falls with VDO itself and has no hardware lifecycle to evaluate.
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Not a driver directory: dm-vdo indexer contains internal VDO indexing/support code under the device-mapper subsystem, not kernel-bound hardware driver code.