On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3:06:35 PM CET Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Dienstag, 14. März 2017 14:51:01 CET Johannes Berg wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > I'm not sure I mentioned it to him, or even remembered it when we were
> > discussing it, but I don't think this patch is a good idea, at least
> > for action frames.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > If you restrict it to non-action I can live with it, but I don't know
> > what you really want to do with this.
> 
> I think he required it only for probe requests.
> 

The idea was to grab probe requests from userspace with a program running next 
to hostapd.

Cheers,
      Simon