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Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] add Wide Band Scan support
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To:     Sathishkumar Muruganandam <murugana@codeaurora.org>
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On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 13:27 +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote:
> 
> > How is this related to scanning? It sounds to me like you're just
> > (ab)using scan as a somewhat convenient "do some channel hopping" API
> > ...
> > 
> 
> Whether this can be used under "iw offchannel" with 
> NL80211_CMD_REMAIN_ON_CHANNEL?

Not sure what you're asking. Are you asking if I would accept wide
channel extensions to R-O-C? That seems more reasonable than for
scanning anyway. Still I guess I'd like to see an actual reason for it.

johannes