netdev - Re: pull-request: wireless-drivers-next-2021-04-23

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Message-ID: <20210429081809.7c75db47@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:18:09 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Cc:     Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull-request: wireless-drivers-next-2021-04-23

On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 06:54:45 +0200 Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2021-04-29 02:24, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Kalle Valo wrote:  
> >> mt76: debugfs: introduce napi_threaded node  
> > 
> > Folks, why is the sysfs knob not sufficient?  
> Because mt76 has to use a dummy netdev for NAPI, which does not show up
> in sysfs.

Ah, the ephemeral nature of wireless netdevs. Makes sense.