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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/14] dt-bindings: arm: mediatek: document WED binding
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To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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On 07.04.22 17:50, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> > Isn't this a network offload engine? If yes, then probably it should be
>> > in "net/".
>> It's not a network offload engine by itself. It's a SoC component that
>> connects to the offload engine and controls a MTK PCIe WLAN device,
>> intercepting interrupts and DMA rings in order to be able to inject packets
>> coming in from the offload engine.
> 
> Hi Felix
> 
> Maybe turn the question around. Can it be used for something other
> than networking? If not, then somewhere under net seems reasonable.
I'm fine with moving this to net.

- Felix