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On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 12:45 -0800, Dmitry Shmidt wrote:
> 
> We can either use alternative structure in kernel wireless stack,
> or alternative structure in userspace (in wpa_supplicant), and we
> will most likely need special command for this case at least to
> retrieve results.

Yes, I tend to agree - we need to have some new structure (and netlink
attributes etc.) to report the aggregated/partial results. But it seems
to me that it'll have to be very obvious which way of obtaining results
must be used for a given scan?

johannes