getscanlist command redundant?

Marcelo Tosatti marcelo at kvack.org
Thu Nov 16 18:23:52 EST 2006


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:04:13AM -0800, Ronak Chokshi wrote:
> Dan and Marcelo,
> Your comments are pretty much accurate. extscan is used to scan for a
> particular SSID and getscanlist is actually is get the latest scan
> results from the scan buffers in the driver. Unlike, 'iwlist ethX scan',
> issuing getscanlist does not really issue a scan - it just gets the
> latest scan results from the drivers.
> 
> As you can probably envision, these commands are used for roaming use
> cases. For example, application would use the getscanlist to get the
> latest set of probe responses or would use the extscan to actually scan
> for one particular AP.

Ronak,

What is the functional difference between getscanlist and getscantable? 

They appear to provide the same information to me.

Thanks



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