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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware
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From: Premkumar Jonnala <pjonnala@broadcom.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 06:12:24 +0000

> Thank you for the feedback David.  I am currently handling/implementing
> these notifications in a custom (closed source) driver.  I will update the diff 
> with an actual demo of the handler, and resend the diffs.

No, I don't want a damn "demo", I want a real use in an upstream
driver.

You cannot add infrastructure that only has a real use in your
out-of-tree or closed source driver.

That is _completely_ and _totally_ unacceptable.