Re: [PATCH] net: dev: Add API to check net_dev readiness

[Ilia Lin]

Hi Andrew and David,

Thank you for your comments!

The client driver is still work in progress, but it can be seen here:
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.19/tree/drivers/platform/msm/ipa/ipa_api.c#n3842

For HW performance reasons, it has to be in subsys_initcall.

Here is the register_netdev call:
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.19/tree/drivers/platform/msm/ipa/ipa_v3/rmnet_ipa.c#n2497

And it is going to be in the subsys_initcall as well.

Thanks,
Ilia

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 8:32 PM David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:45:28 +0200
>
> > I also have to wonder why a network device driver is being probed the
> > subsys_initcall.
>
> This makes me wonder how this interface could even be useful.  The
> only way to fix the problem is to change when the device is probed,
> which would mean changing which initcall it uses.  So at run time,
> this information can't do much.