From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75C1D82862 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:17:04 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1713201424; cv=none; b=R809Wz8eduWHMn5d9K5KgWZ8p5+nPC1LSbqsBSfcLp+6AgOeFYYFc38VohRXNxx9jjDLh/zyyYfNU9LfBHOmyid4Fq5APRy3NvYaqXEpZBq4R5k3xT6zmhrx2b1/w5cUCwda7AYJX6B5Lsu7b1O4HKrg+5M5gzDrvtI30qmet7A= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1713201424; c=relaxed/simple; bh=kn/5VO3WJcwA9ybjyGIpA4RIajnbI3g6G3Ka3UzJcjc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=qQf5NK2/DuG5eQKPlAq0xR5HzcW+RGPyvOHYP1yzFhnu7Beqqdd1rOdjKO1gYkT8D1zNDTCzCJtJVSbyeWGSJcyjb2MMiO+RfcxLEKrePt7G5zjb5G3xfUv46Bp8Uh3100aWqiXFJHT5atSQRQ4TbgD2q01eO2nUc7dXXDtTx7M= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=k6imNyz5; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="k6imNyz5" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 45C2AC113CC; Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1713201424; bh=kn/5VO3WJcwA9ybjyGIpA4RIajnbI3g6G3Ka3UzJcjc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=k6imNyz5beEoW6GKd8cohZoAi5T4JM0xB/lrGwXK2E7/5fr/TsiRpoxgm89c5fp7I +1N4sal+bt7XAKzKDCoT1rTsLaIosn2xn5RyXAQpPgNuCkgkq8UfwOrLziK6a5QATY DhGJWza6H4d/T3d7QZHvMmknfjq6LR2zs/tFYlDFuhuJ6zcn+vubVWfBPGG8NUNVy6 OMsvyLmZEDw/WTFY7QUIR/4qadvw3GPv8dDHSLYQ0MPcfMNBUcdXpmCwLKnXe7ZluX puY295NsTGU1Y3OIg5DUsG1AoXRlfc5PfuZiwccN/K4PX66nC1A1R0Y3x7MD/tT4eb bI/9mGKP5nXTQ== From: Kalle Valo To: Jeff Johnson Cc: , Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath12k: enable WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT References: <20240411165645.4071238-1-kvalo@kernel.org> <87h6g2y4jp.fsf@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:17:01 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Jeff Johnson's message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:59:21 -0700") Message-ID: <87cyqqy29e.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jeff Johnson writes: > On 4/15/2024 9:27 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Jeff Johnson writes: >>> Is there a Ubuntu / Network Manager fix fir this? >> >> I would hope that Network Manager doesn't use WEXT or especially run the >> iwconfig tool. This is why I suspect that you run iwconfig manually. > > I am not running iwconfig manually. I'm simply using the Ubuntu wifi settings > menu to enable Hotspot. So somewhere under the hood Ubuntu/NM is running iwconfig Oh man, screenscraping iwconfig is horrible. I would be very curious to know what software exactly does this. This makes even more important to extend the cfg80211 wext warning per process, otherwise there can be more of these which are not detected. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches