Created attachment 290724 [details] [review]
0001-wifi-don-t-query-nl80211-for-non-WiFi-devices.patch

The upstream kernel added module aliases for nl80211 in commit
fb4e156886ce6e8309e912d8b370d192330d19d3, so querying nl80211
now auto-loads the module.  Previously NM was doing this to
determine whether an 'ethernet-like' device was a Wi-Fi device
that supported nl80211, but this leads to the nl80211 loading
on platforms that will never have or use Wi-Fi.

Since every nl80211-capable device will already have
DEVTYPE=wlan set (from /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent), we can use
that as an indicator that the 'ethernet-link' device is WiFi
instead of asking nl80211.