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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 16:27 +0200, Jukka Rissanen wrote:
> A new attribute NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_SOCKET_OWNER can be set by the
> scan initiator. If present, the attribute will cause the scan to
> be stopped if the client dies.

We already have NL80211_ATTR_IFACE_SOCKET_OWNER, maybe we can repurpose
this flag to a more general "owner" flag?

Of course we need to keep ABI (same attribute number) and API (a
#define) but that's not an issue.

johannes