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

From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@green-communications.fr>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: wext: warn about usage only once
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:54:01 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <167743403946.7100.11241419811372404237.kvalo@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230224135933.94104aeda1a0.Ie771c6a66d7d6c3cf67da5f3b0c66cea66fd514c@changeid>

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.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@intel.com>

Patch applied to wireless.git, thanks.

52fd90638a72 wifi: wext: warn about usage only once

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20230224135933.94104aeda1a0.Ie771c6a66d7d6c3cf67da5f3b0c66cea66fd514c@changeid/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches