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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , "imx@lists.linux.dev" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , dl-linux-imx Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: enetc: Support ethernet aliases in dts. 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This is what my limited experience is telling me, yes.