diff --git a/components/mlme/dispatcher/inc/cfg_mlme_reg.h b/components/mlme/dispatcher/inc/cfg_mlme_reg.h
index c28c119db46b..24c6f54a4d0f 100644
--- a/components/mlme/dispatcher/inc/cfg_mlme_reg.h
+++ b/components/mlme/dispatcher/inc/cfg_mlme_reg.h
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2012-2020 The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2022 Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for
  * any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the
@@ -292,7 +293,7 @@
  * enable_pending_list_req - Sets Pending channel List Req.
  * @Min: 0
  * @Max: 1
- * @Default: 0
+ * @Default: 1
  *
  * This option enables/disables SCAN_CHAN_LIST_CMDID channel list command to FW
  * till the current scan is complete.
@@ -307,7 +308,7 @@
  */
 #define CFG_ENABLE_PENDING_CHAN_LIST_REQ CFG_INI_BOOL( \
 			"enable_pending_list_req", \
-			0, \
+			1, \
 			"Enable Pending list req")
 
 /*