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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:40:18 +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
Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org> writes:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> 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>
>
> Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.
>
> 35c2dcbb64d4 wifi: wext: warn about usage only once
Oops, wrong tree. Please ignore the mail, I'll take this into wireless
tree.
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