On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 22:42 +0900, Masashi Honma wrote: > Both wpa_supplicant and mac80211 has inactivity timer. By default > wpa_supplicant will be timed out in 5 minutes and mac80211's it is 30 minutes. > If wpa_supplicant uses more long timer than mac80211, wpa_supplicant will get > unexpected disconnection by mac80211. This patch adds functionality of disabling > mac80211 inactivity timer to avoid to prevent wpa_supplicant inactivity timer. > > I have thought setting 0xffffffff to NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT will solve > this problem without this patch. But the approach does not work on 32 bit > system. To explain the reason, I will show STA expiration rule in kernel. This > is the expression. > > (current jiffies) > (frame Rx jiffies + NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT * 250) > > On 32bit system, right side could be over flow and be unexpected small value if > NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT is sufficiently large. STA expiration occurs by > this reason. So I made this patch. Applied, I've reworded and rewrapped the commit log - in the future please send commit logs with at most 72 characters per line. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
