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From: "Mintz, Yuval" <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:12:59 +0000

> I surely wouldn't want to write a million lines of code just to
> provide such a detailed abstraction.

So now the argument has gone from "it's not possible" to "it's going
to be a HUGE amount of code."

I wonder what the next argument will be when I shoot this one down.

If you simply don't want to do the hard work necessary to implement
this properly, which is fine, just say so.