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
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:42:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130618124237.GC1124@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371558772.8318.11.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
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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>
> >
> > 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,
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Antonio Quartulli
..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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2013-06-18 12:29 [PATCH] nl80211: allow to register for mgmt frames without a matching pattern Antonio Quartulli
2013-06-18 12:32 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-18 12:42 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
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