On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 02:12:59PM +0800, Tom Yan wrote: > Currently hostapd is forked to background once the interface state is > changed from the UNINITIALIZED state. Is there any reason no to do > that after it entered the ENABLED state? (Or even, AP-ENABLED, if that > isn't the same thing) AP startup can take over 10 minutes in case of DFS on weather radar channels and over one minute for other DFS channels. It does not sound appropriate to block the process that is trying to start hostapd in the background for that long a time. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap