An in-kernel implementation of the OpenVPN tunnel as a virtual network device, added to accelerate the data path of OpenVPN connections by handling encryption and packet forwarding inside the kernel rather than in userspace. It is not tied to any physical hardware.
This is not actually a hardware driver directory; it is the kernel-side implementation of the OpenVPN protocol's data channel, exposed as a virtual network interface. It exists to speed up OpenVPN by moving the hot path out of userspace, and questions about its lifecycle belong to the networking and VPN maintainers rather than to a hardware deprecation review.
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Not a driver directory: contains the OpenVPN tunnel virtual netdevice implementation, not hardware-bound driver code.