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Re: [RFC] nl80211: introduce NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_EXPIRE

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On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 08:42 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > > It also allows to set an expiration for
> > > NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN. Setting the expiration to 0 will
> > > clean the whole BSS list.
> >
> > tbh, I don't really understand the need for it. changing your
> > AP settings doesn't seem like a use case anyone would really
> > care about that much.
> 
> Turning of an AP is one way making the AP vanish.
> 
> Sitting into a fork-lift and driving throught a ware-house hall 
> is another way to accomplish the same.

It's not actually the same, and you didn't explain that well. You care
about the disappear case, but you made it sound like you cared about the
_reappear_ case.

However, I still don't believe that you need to change anything in the
kernel, just get wpa_supplicant to handle it properly.

johannes

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