[PATCH] mesh: Make inactivity timer configurable

Bob Copeland me
Wed Jan 14 18:59:51 PST 2015


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:12:17AM +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
> 2015-01-14 23:14 GMT+09:00 Bob Copeland <me at bobcopeland.com>:
> > This is a much lower timeout than the default in the kernel.  Maybe it
> > doesn't matter, but just pointing that out.
> 
> I could not find out appropriate value in IEEE 802.11s spec.
> So I use AP mode default.

OK.  The kernel default is 30 minutes, which admittedly is on the largish
side.  Just guessing that was selected in order to speed up healing with
mobile stations, but I wasn't around when that value was determined.

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