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Date:   Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:05:28 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 08:57:12AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> Don't have any strong reason to keep it separate, I can define a new
> type and use the setup_data to pass this information.

setup_data is exactly for use cases like that - pass a bunch of data
to the kernel. So there's no need for a separate thing. Also see that
kernel_info thing which got added recently for read_only data.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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