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From: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:20:12 +0300

> I completely understand but you didn't answer my question. How come
> there are drivers which create netdev objects, and specifically sgi-xp
> in misc (but I also saw it in usb drivers) that live outside
> drivers/net ? Why doesn't your request apply to them as well ?

Don't use examples of drivers doing the wrong thing as an excuse for
you to repeat the mistake.

Ok?

That kind of argument doesn't work here.