On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 12:19 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > On 07/10/2012 12:08 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 12:02 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > >> Is there a way to open a netlink socket and have it receive > >> all scan results (even those requested by other applications)? > > > > What do you mean by scan results? The results themselves? No, they are a > > dump and unicast to one application. The fact that a scan finished? Yes, > > of course. > > I'd like the results themselves..for instance, just piggyback on whatever > supplicant is already doing to get periodic updates, and of course I'd > end up requesting some scans myself from time to time if a user wanted > an immediate update. > > I was hoping it could be something like just listening for network-device > and route updates like netlink already supports. > > Since scanning is relatively slow and expensive, it seems like a good > idea to allow re-using the results... Well, umm.. you can just request the results? A la "iw wlan0 scan dump"? johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
