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If you disagree with the > directions, you will have to convince Nvidia/Mellanox and Intel networking > folks who contributed the solution to do something different. The purpose of the aux devices was primarily to bind a *software* interface between two parts of the kernel. If there is a strong defined HW boundary and no software interface then the mfd subsytem may be a better choice. For a software layer I expect to see some 'handle' and then a set of APIs to work within that. It is OK if that 'handle' refers to some HW resources that the API needs to work, the purpose of this is to control HW after all. You might help Vinod by explaining what the SW API is here. Jason