Internal plumbing inside the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA GPU driver that handles the I2C and AUX channel buses GPUs use to talk to monitors (for EDID, DDC, and DisplayPort link training) and to on-board devices like fan controllers and thermal sensors.
This is not a standalone driver but a helper subdirectory of the Nouveau DRM driver, providing the I2C/AUX bus support that the rest of Nouveau builds on. It lives or dies with Nouveau itself and is not a meaningful unit to evaluate for removal on its own.
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Not a driver directory: contains Nouveau NVKM internal I2C subdevice/helper implementation under the DRM driver, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.