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On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 01:33:20AM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:

> A question for Mark though -- in one of my earliest stabs at this I floated
> the idea of using reg-userspace-consumer for it, but was told in no
> uncertain terms that that driver was for testing only and should under no
> circumstances ever be instantiated in a production system.  Has the thinking
> on its usage changed in the last year or so such that this approach was
> deemed okay?

I was talked around after some discussion of the use case.  It's still
not a great API but for at least some of these users it'll do.  It's
important that it not appear directly in bindings though.

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