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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] nl80211: implement beacon change notifier

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Hi Sergey,

Sorry for the long delay.

On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 23:31 +0300, Sergey Matyukevich wrote:
> 
> By the way, speaking about GET_CMD_BEACON and its possible users in the
> community. There is already a stub for it in nl80211 uapi headers. What
> was the original idea for that ? Or was it just a placeholder added
> together with SET_BEACON ?

I think it was a placeholder, you can probably find it in git history.
I vaguely remember thinking - many years ago - that all the operations
should consistently support add, del, set and get, but that isn't
really all that practical.

johannes



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