An internal subcomponent of the Mellanox/NVIDIA mlx5 Ethernet and InfiniBand driver that implements hardware-based packet steering rules for ConnectX series network adapters. It is part of the larger mlx5 driver rather than a separate device driver in its own right.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is a helper module inside the existing mlx5 driver that handles hardware steering logic for Mellanox/NVIDIA ConnectX network cards. It has no independent device binding and lives or dies with the parent mlx5 driver, so it falls outside the scope of driver-level keep/remove decisions.
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Not a driver directory: internal mlx5 hardware-steering support code under an existing driver, with no standalone driver entry point or device binding role.