Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:42:37 +0200
From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: allow to register for mgmt frames without a
 matching pattern
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 02:32:52PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 14:29 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> >=20
> > It may be the case that a user wants to register for any
> > frame of a particular type.
> >=20
> > Allow this operation by passing null as matching pattern and
> > 0 as pattern len when registering for the frame.
> >=20
> > This is useful to wpa_supplicant when it wants to receive
> > any AUTH frame.
>=20
> We can (and do) pass a 0-length pattern, any problem with that?

Hello Johannes,

I did not know that netlink supports 0-length attribute.
Thanks for the hint. At this point this patch can be dropped.

Regards,

--=20
Antonio Quartulli

=2E.each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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