wifi: wireless: warn on most wireless extension usage
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:51:52 +0000 (10:51 +0100)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:01:41 +0000 (20:01 +0200)
commitdc09766c755c5b06d71fe5d2f4f3d431540eaae0
treed9f948955f7460d402c4f2e659b88d692d339769
parent82253ddaff582147cd3fd0e629c4e65d62b1d015
wifi: wireless: warn on most wireless extension usage

With WiFi 7 (802.11ax, MLO/EHT) around the corner, we're going to
remove support for wireless extensions with new devices since MLO
(multi-link operation) cannot be properly indicated using them.

Add a warning to indicate which processes are still using wireless
extensions, if being used with modern (i.e. cfg80211) drivers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118105152.a7158a929a6f.Ifcf30eeeb8fc7019e4dcf2782b04515254d165e1@changeid
net/wireless/wext-core.c