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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] nl80211: implement beacon change notifier
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 12:40 +0300, Sergey Matyukevich wrote:
> From: Vasily Ulyanov <vulyanov@quantenna.com>
> 
> Notify user-space listeners about beacon data change.

What would this be needed for, and why couldn't you just directly talk
to hostapd/wpa_s?

johannes