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Re: [PATCH 7/7] cfg80211: increase scan result expire time

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On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 12:50 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2009 schrieb Johannes Berg:
> > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 12:14 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> > > Using background scanning in mac80211 the time a scan needs to
> > > finish can exceed 10 seconds. Hence, increase the scan results
> > > expire time to 15 seconds which should be sufficient.
> > >     
> > > Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Heh.
> 
> ;)
> 
> Maybe we could later use a dynamic expire time based on the time
> the last scan took or something similar. But for now 15 seconds
> should suffice.

Since we tell (or if we don't, should) userspace when that was last
seen, I guess we could just increase this more anyway. But ultimately it
doesn't matter all that much since people are just using wpa_supplicant
and keeping a copy in userspace.

johannes

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