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Message-ID: <dff29d82-9c4b-1933-c1c1-a3becf2a0f1f@lwfinger.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:45:14 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@...en-communications.fr>,
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: wext: warn about usage only once
On 2/24/23 06:59, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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>
> ---
> Not really sure I see a better solution ...
>
> - tracking it per task would be nice in a way I guess,
> but is also awful;
> - adjusting the rate limit will lead us into an endless
> bikeshedding discussion about the parameters;
> - removing the warning will leave us with no indiciation
> of what happens with Wi-Fi 7 hardware, although most of
> the processes using them now (like Chrome browser??)
> probably ignore failures from it
> - trying to support a 30+ year old technology on modern
> Wi-Fi 7 hardware will be "interesting" and lead to all
> kinds of hacks there
> ---
> net/wireless/wext-core.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
> index 13a72b17248e..a125fd1fa134 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
> @@ -641,8 +641,8 @@ static void wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext(void)
> {
> char name[sizeof(current->comm)];
>
> - pr_warn_ratelimited("warning: `%s' uses wireless extensions that are deprecated for modern drivers; use nl80211\n",
> - get_task_comm(name, current));
> + pr_warn_once("warning: `%s' uses wireless extensions which will stop working for Wi-Fi 7 hardware; use nl80211\n",
> + get_task_comm(name, current));
> }
> #endif
>
Johannes,
Although this patch will stop the log spamming that I see, it will not provide
much information upstream for fixing the problems.
Even if this patch is applied to the kernel, I plan to keep my local, once per
task, patch so that I can keep upstream informed, and perhaps get fixes applied
there.
Larry
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