Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 1/27/24 01:43, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: >> Previously, the driver created a net device (typically wlan0) as soon >> as the module was loaded. This commit changes the driver to follow >> normal Linux convention of creating the net device only when bus >> probing detects a supported chip. > > As already mentioned multiple times, I am skeptical about the validity of > keeping netdev registration before chip presence check, but I am not the > maintainer, so I let Ajay and Kalle decide for this. I haven't checked the code but as a general comment I agree with Alexis, registering netdev before the hardware is ready sounds odd to me. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
