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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl/cfg80211: advertise OBSS scan offload capability
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On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 14:54 -0800, Bing Zhao wrote:
> From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
> 
> New flag is added to inform userspace that this driver doesn't
> internally perform OBSS scan. It can use this feature available
> in userspace application.

Shouldn't that be a little more precisely worded? Most drivers already
expect wpa_s to do this, but apparently the assumption was that without
the flag, full-MAC drivers, i.e. drivers implementing the nl80211
connect API (rather than auth/assoc) do it themselves?

Or maybe mac80211 should just set the flag?

johannes