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Hi,

> > What would be the behaviour of flush in a scheduled scan?
> 
> As per our understanding, scheduled scan is triggered from
> application. Driver/hardware will keep on scanning the network
> periodically using specified time interval and provide scan results to
> cfg80211.

Right.

> We have added code (v3 patch 4/5) to flush older scan entries whenever
> new results are available. scan_start time is used for this. Everytime
> it's getting modified to "jiffies + interval" for future use.

Ah. But that's in the wrong units (jiffies vs. ms).

johannes