On 10/09/2018 12:14 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 18:36 +0000, Adham.Abozaeid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> Johannes, is the cfg80211_scan_request.ssid used for something else >> other than specifying the hidden networks that the controller should >> scan for? > > Ahh, now I understand where you're coming from. > > Well, it's the SSID to include in the probe request(s), the most common > thing there is the 0-length wildcard, of course. > > So while it may be required for hidden networks, it's not strictly > related to that. Do you mean that it can also be used for probing specific networks even if they are broadcasting their SSID? I think this might be a possible case if the user is trying to limit the scan results to a specific network. > > johannes >
