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Re: [PATCH 6/6] mwifiex: remove BSS entry before specific SSID scan

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On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 22:04 -0800, Bing Zhao wrote:
> From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Driver performs specific SSID scan operation when "iw dev <devname>
> scan ssid <ssid>" command is fired.
> Sometimes even if driver could not find the AP with requested SSID
> in scanning, it is displayed in scan results based on history,
> because scan table entries are valid in cfg80211 stack for 15 seconds.
> 
> This patch adds code to remove respective scan table entry before
> performing specific SSID scan to make sure that correct scan results
> are displayed to user.

NACK. This isn't the intended behaviour here. If any such behaviour is
desired it should probably be implemented in wpa_s, or maybe in
cfg80211, but certainly not in the driver where all it does is make
different drivers behave differently.

johannes

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