From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a
	passthru device
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:14:32 -0800
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