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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: add support for scanning in ap mode
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 12:19 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 12:18 +0100, Nick wrote:
> > Thanks for your feedback. Can you suggest a better way to do this?
> >=20
>=20
> Well there already is NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_AP?
>=20

Oh sorry you want it independent of the driver.

But why? This was primarily a thing for "does the firmware even support
this".

So really then your driver should set it?

johannes