Re: [PATCH] wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware
From: Dmitry Antipov
Date: Mon Jun 16 2025 - 06:08:04 EST
On 6/15/25 10:54 PM, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
So it looks like ar->registered being false here is a "correct" failure
condition, i.e. it can be expected when the certain phase of the driver
initialization fails and should be handled without any WARNs.
Looking through Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, it may be
better to use pr_warn_once() instead; anyway I would prefer leave
the final decision to the maintainer.
Dmitry