netdev - Re: [PATCH] wifi: wext: warn about usage only once

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Message-ID: <87lekn2jhx.fsf@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:03:38 +0200
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@...en-communications.fr>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: wext: warn about usage only once

Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> writes:

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
>
> Warn only once since the ratelimit parameters are still
> allowing too many messages to happen. This will no longer
> tell you all the different processes, but still gives a
> heads-up of sorts.
>
> Also modify the message to note that wext stops working
> for future Wi-Fi 7 hardware, this is already implemented
> in commit 4ca69027691a ("wifi: wireless: deny wireless
> extensions on MLO-capable devices") and is maybe of more
> relevance to users than the fact that we'd like to have
> wireless extensions deprecated.
>
> The issue with Wi-Fi 7 is that you can now have multiple
> connections to the same AP, so a whole bunch of things
> now become per link rather than per netdev, which can't
> really be handled in wireless extensions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

Linus, do you want to apply this directly or should we send this
normally via the wireless tree? For the latter I would assume you would
get it sometime next week.

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