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wifi: wext: warn about usage only once
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:59:34 +0000 (13:59 +0100)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:53:35 +0000 (19:53 +0200)
commit52fd90638a7269be2a6f6cf1e4dea6724f8e13b6
tree754cbf8696cea091fc4ffa07827ab3e8250cbe34
parentcf45efcb250ea788085f330db972256735f970e0
wifi: wext: warn about usage only once

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>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230224135933.94104aeda1a0.Ie771c6a66d7d6c3cf67da5f3b0c66cea66fd514c@changeid
net/wireless/wext-core.c