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From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:00:08 +0530

> The primary motivation is to eliminate the need for installing and starting
> a userspace tool for the basic WiFi usage. This will be critical for the
> Qualcomm WLAN devices deployed in x86 laptops.

I can't even remember it ever being the case that wifi would come up without
the help of a userspace component of some sort to initiate the scan and choose
and AP to associate with.

And from that perspective your argument doesn't seem valid at all.