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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 00/17] net: introduce Qualcomm IPA driver
    >> There is a n:1 relationship between rmnet and IPA.
    >> rmnet does the de-muxing to multiple netdevs based on the mux id
    >> in the MAP header for RX packets and vice versa.
    >
    > Oh, so you mean that even though IPA supports multiple channels
    > and multiple netdev instances for a physical device, all the
    > rmnet devices end up being thrown into a single channel in IPA?
    >
    > What are the other channels for in IPA? I understand that there
    > is one channel for commands that is separate, while the others
    > are for network devices, but that seems to make no sense if
    > we only use a single channel for rmnet data.
    >

    AFAIK, the other channels are for use cases like tethering.
    There is only a single channel which is used for RX
    data which is then de-muxed using rmnet.

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