From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63855C636D7 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230350AbjBWTGG (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:06:06 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51972 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229518AbjBWTGF (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:06:05 -0500 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 100EF52DE4; Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99A97616DE; Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 46BBDC433D2; Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:06:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1677179164; bh=XppVl+0anAeipNeoaerXbgrBjpojEcKUhkLAUcnE1uE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=oRT8O74pTNHQpp23rqc9KuvLMNsX1iIT7PCSAdC88ZyuIMYn3GUMaWVhGWbVl6283 Ny3vPGC5st/yninLEDXSKQ+cq9/KwkyCb03e3p8qnLeGkevdAWc327BrvxVi+ecGDU hdR4bX/koQCxiYpBfyMBk+Y1jyNEWVKLgr0ZTKjtFFzsMfTTdrUxlhx4YXwUtn6M/J eblZqx0j/HXbn/PtTVO+byYmaTndjuGAP7Iizv4Q9jW1lLFVTALHK2V8HwVkvOFpS1 0Tr29M4EL6faUmknHO6KMJknGhwKiJukPd6v+2ronylL4x6znIKnaiEZ81upAE6mo3 x5mO2ukHt2eYQ== From: Kalle Valo To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Johannes Berg , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PULL] Networking for v6.3 References: <20230221233808.1565509-1-kuba@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:06:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:21:38 -0800") Message-ID: <87pma02odj.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 3:38 PM Jakub Kicinski wrote: > -- >> Networking changes for 6.3. > > Hmm. I just noticed another issue on my laptop: I get an absolute *flood* of > > warning: 'ThreadPoolForeg' uses wireless extensions that are > deprecated for modern drivers: use nl80211 > > introduced in commit dc09766c755c ("wifi: wireless: warn on most > wireless extension usage"). > > This is on my xps13 with Atheros QCA6174 wireless ("Killer 1435 > Wireless-AC", PCI ID 168c:003e, subsystem 1a56:143a). > > And yes, it uses 'pr_warn_ratelimited()', but the ratelimiting is a > joke. That means that I "only" get five warnings a second, and then it > pauses for a minute or two until it does it again. > > So that warning needs to go away - it flushed the whole kernel printk > buffer in no time. Ouch, sorry about that. The ratelimiting is really a joke here. We'll send a patch tomorrow. So that we can file a bug report about use of Wireless Extensions, what process is ThreadPoolForeg? I did a quick search and it seems to be Chromium related, but is it really from Chromium? The warning was applied over a month ago, I'm surprised nobody else has reported anything. I would expect that there are more Chromium users :) -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches