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

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:03:38 +0200

Johannes Berg <[email-masked]> writes:

> From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
>
> 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 <[email-masked]>

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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