getscanlist command redundant?

[Marcelo Tosatti]

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