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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 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?

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,

-- 
Antonio Quartulli

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

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