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Subject: Re: Any reason AID is not in the NL80211_STA_INFO enumeration?
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Mon, 2020-02-17 at 17:11 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> To sniff /AX stations, it is helpful to know their AID.  So, any problems
> with adding it to 'iw station dump' output?

No, no problem at all. I guess it was just never added because it
originally comes from userspace (hostapd), and so didn't really need to
be sent back. But yeah, we have trivial infrastructure to send it back,
so sure, why not.

johannes