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

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> > 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.
> 
> We've talked about passing a flag in w/ the scan request that says "flush your bss cache
> first".  Seems like that'd do what's desired here (and could be used by wpa_supplicant to replace
> manually flushing stale entries).

Hi Sam,

Is there a patch available for testing?

Thanks,
Bing


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