On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 01:13:51PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Aren't hidden SSID completely pointless anyway and not actually hidden?
Yes, they are. But people use them, sometimes involuntarily. iwm(4) didn't support hidden SSIDs for a long time, but does now because several people asked for it. I see no need to break this feature if we can avoid doing so.