Skip scanning in wpa_supplicant When we execute command `wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf` for connecting to AP, `wpa_supplicant` follows following steps: 1. wpa_supplicant requests the kernel driver to scan neighboring BSSes 2. wpa_supplicant selects a BSS based on its configuration 3. wpa_supplicant requests the kernel driver to associate with the chosen BSS Is there any way to skip the scanning part i.e. step no.1 ? Since scanning takes considerably few seconds, as local env have 50+ SSID.

The wpa_supplicant need to gather some information about an AP ( availability , ESSID, BSSID ,Freq , security , channel ...) , for every connect request it will invoke some functions to update the BSS table.

Without the BSS table update the wpa_supplicant can't handle any change on an AP, so it is not possible to skip scanning.