On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 12:37 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> 
> The currently identified use cases do not seem to care much about the
> actual result of this command since there is going to be a wait for 
> the
> scan completed event anyway and the call is not even used unless 
> there
> is a known ongoing scan. As such, even the difference of a driver
> supporting this command or not is not that significant taken into
> account this is used only as an optimization to speed up the 
> following
> operation when a long scan operation was in progress. Things work 
> fine
> (though without that speed benefit) even if the driver does not
> support this. Anyway, making cfg80211 advertise whether the new 
> command
> is available could obviously be done should someone come up with a 
> use
> case that depends on knowing that the optimization is available.
> 

Fair point. In that case though, making the driver operation void would
make sense.

johannes
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