wpa_supplicant/mlme.c Doubt

[Francisco Cuesta]

2013/5/15 Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>:
> On 05/15/2013 08:32 AM, Francisco Cuesta wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jouni,
>>
>> I have been reading the file mac80211/mlme.c trying to find out where
>> that definiton was made, and I found  the following definition
>>
>> #define IEEE80211_AUTH_TIMEOUT (HZ / 5)
>
>
> HZ is the number of ticks needed to make 1 second, so this is
> a 200ms timeout.
>

Ticks? What kind of unit is that? I mean, does it refers to some cpu
cycle or signal period?
Then, I assume that HZ=1(s) but where is that variable defined?

Thanks

> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
>>
>> Could you tell me what is the variable HZ defined and where it does come
>> from?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> regards!
>>
>> 2013/5/13 Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi>:
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 04:57:44PM +0200, Francisco Cuesta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was looking through the documentation available on the website, the
>>>> wpa_supplicant/hostapd.pdf, and I cannot find a file called mlme.c
>>>> which appears in the documentation under section 15.38 as
>>>> wpa_supplicant/mlme.c, but it doesn't in the code... Has it been
>>>> renamed or split among other files?? I'm keen on it because I would
>>>> like to seek definitions like below ones, which seems to be in that
>>>> file.
>>>
>>>
>>> The MLME functionality in wpa_supplicant has been removed:
>>>
>>> http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=commitdiff;h=17fbb751e174854f01986690eb1bb989923aa7fd
>>>
>>>> define IEEE80211_AUTH_TIMEOUT (200)
>>>
>>>
>>> What would you be using these for? These were not really used for
>>> anything apart from some testing purposes with simulated WLAN (i.e., no
>>> real hardware). You'll find this behavior in the driver or 802.11 stack
>>> in the kernel.
>>>
>>> --
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