Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > > These are new devices that will be introduced into the market s/new/Wi-Fi 7/? > in 2023, with new drivers. Wireless extensions haven't been in > real development since 2006. Since wireless has evolved a lot, > and continues to evolve significantly with MLO, there's really s/MLO/Multi-Link Operation/? It would good to spell out the acronym at least once per commit log. > no good way to still support wireless extensions for devices > that do MLO. > > Stop supporting wireless extensions for new devices. We don't > consider this a regression since no such devices (apart from > hwsim) exist yet. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/wireless/wext-core.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c > index cbeb8be214a8..d3b5cf02690c 100644 > --- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c > +++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c > @@ -662,6 +662,8 @@ struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev) > dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext && > dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats) { > wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext(); > + if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO) > + return NULL; Should we have a some kind of warning in this case as well? Otherwise the user has no idea why it stopped working, right? > return dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats(dev); > } > #endif > @@ -702,6 +704,8 @@ static iw_handler get_handler(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int cmd) > #ifdef CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT > if (dev->ieee80211_ptr && dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy) { > wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext(); > + if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO) > + return NULL; And here? -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches