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

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:40:18 +0200

Kalle Valo <[email-masked]> writes:

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