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    SubjectRe: [patch 21/32] NTB/msi: Convert to msi_on_each_desc()
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    On Wed, Dec 01 2021 at 14:47, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
    > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 07:37:32PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
    >> I picked that because it _is_ already used to establish the connection
    >> to the switchtec_class NTB driver which is beyond the usual cdev muck.
    >
    > IMHO that is also a misuse. These days two drivers should be hooked
    > together using an aux device, not a cdev and the obscure
    > class_interface stuff. Aux device supports auto probing and module
    > auto loading for instance.
    >
    > An interrupt on an aux device is at least somewhat conceptually
    > parallel to an interrupt on a mdev as both are usually representing
    > some slice of a device.

    No argument about that.

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