On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 07:09 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:47 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:38 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > > > From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > This patch adds the interval between the scan results and the last time a > > > beacon was received in the result of the scan. > > > > Why do we need this? > > Sometimes it's nice to see when the beacon was last seen, since the > driver holds onto BSSs for a while, you don't know how long they've been > in the scan list. If you only cared about the newest BSSs you could use > this to ignore certain APs from the scan list. Well, but you can't really do it in a program since it's a custom type, or you'd have to parse this. > Would be nice to push this attribute back with nl80211 as well. If anybody ever implements anything there... johannes
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