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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: allow to register for mgmt frames without a
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:32:52 +0200
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On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 14:29 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> 
> It may be the case that a user wants to register for any
> frame of a particular type.
> 
> Allow this operation by passing null as matching pattern and
> 0 as pattern len when registering for the frame.
> 
> This is useful to wpa_supplicant when it wants to receive
> any AUTH frame.

We can (and do) pass a 0-length pattern, any problem with that?

johannes