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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 04:03:54PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> The issue was because of multiple event contexts involved. However,
> it's no longer the case with reworked event context.

I got that but it wouldn't hurt to have this test regardless, no?

More testing is pretty much always better...

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