Title should have been "How i found a bug in some deprecated 802.11g-era API that is disabled by default" I always wonder why the kernel does not just warn whe

Title should have been "How i found a bug in some deprecated 802.11g-era API that is disabled by default" I always wonder why the kernel does not just warn when this API is used or yank it. Any software stuck with this API can barely know about 802.11n and is probably wondering what is 802.11ac or 802.11ax. Only some old or broken device drivers require this API. Linux distros should just stop enabling this API.