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Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath11k: allocate dummy net_device dynamically

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On 3/20/2024 7:32 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Embedding net_device into structures prohibits the usage of flexible
>> arrays in the net_device structure. For more details, see the discussion
>> at [1].
>>
>> Un-embed the net_device from struct ath11k_ext_irq_grp by converting it
>> into a pointer. Then use the leverage alloc_netdev() to allocate the
>> net_device object at ath11k_ahb_config_ext_irq() for ahb, and
>> ath11k_pcic_ext_irq_config() for pcic.
>>
>>  The free of the device occurs at ath11k_ahb_free_ext_irq() for the ahb
>> case, and ath11k_pcic_free_ext_irq() for the pcic case.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240229225910.79e224cf@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This crashes on my nuc x86 test box with WCN6855 hw2.0 when running
> rmmod, stacktrace below. I used tag ath-202403201010 from my ath.git
> tree as the baseline. Sorry that I'm not able to debug this further
> right now.

It seems to maintain the logic of the original that we should not use
alloc_netdev() and free_netdev() but instead should just use kmalloc()/kfree().





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