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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 08:37:52 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 17:24:03 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Given the discussion going on in the thread "mlx5 ConnectX control
> misc driver", you also plan to show you don't need such a misc driver?

To the extent to which it is possible to prove an in-existence
of something :) Since my argument that Meta can use _vendor_ devices
without resorting to "misc drivers" doesn't convince them, I doubt
this data point would help.