Subject: Re: nl80211 scanning from userspace
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Christopher Piggott <cpiggott@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:41:36 +0200
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On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 15:37 -0400, Christopher Piggott wrote:
> Thanks, I had missed that.  I assume I also have to specify the
> interface number for NL80211_CMD_GET_SCAN as well as
> NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN, right?
> 
> What I get now is a "Success" on the TRIGGER but an "Operation not
> supported" on the GET.

Yes, but if that was the only thing missing you'd also get -EINVAL.
However, GET only supports dumping, you have to see how to do that,
which explains the -EOPNOTSUPP.

johannes