An internal code module inside the Mellanox mlx5 Ethernet/InfiniBand driver that implements software-managed packet steering rules for ConnectX-series network adapters. It is not a standalone driver but a building block used by the larger mlx5 driver to program flow tables.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is a subcomponent of the Mellanox mlx5 core driver that provides software steering logic for ConnectX network adapters. It has no independent device binding and lives or dies with the parent mlx5 driver, so it falls outside the scope of driver-removal decisions.
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Not a driver directory: internal mlx5 software-steering support code under an existing driver, with no standalone device-binding entry point in this directory.