Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath9k: return by of_get_mac_address

From: Rosen Penev
Date: Tue Oct 01 2024 - 14:50:24 EST


On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 1:27 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > It can return -EPROBE_DEFER when using NVMEM. return it so that it gets
> > forwarded to _init.
>
> What bug, if any, does this fix?
None that I've seen. But the goal is: if ath9k probes before NVMEM,
defer so that it can get an NVMEM mac address properly.

I think in OpenWrt there are hacks that force ath9k to probe later, I
think because of the GPIO driver situation there.
>
> -Toke