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Subject: Re: nl80211 scanning from userspace
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On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 19:16 -0400, Christopher Piggott wrote:
> Forgive me if this is an obtuse question but why would one use
> nl_socket_add_membership, if all that isn't necessary to get back the
> scan results?

Well, you want to know when the scan finished, and for that you need to
be in the right group to receive the event when it finishes.

johannes