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* Fix backward compatibility with checkpoint API
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* review comments and fix lint
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

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Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>