Re: mac80211 ad-hoc mode problems

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 18:55 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:18:24AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I'll drop it down to 5 seconds if that's OK with you.  That's still
> > the same amount of time as the wpa_supplicant assoc_failed auth timeout
> > in wpa_supplicant_associate() though, so they could still step on each
> > other.  Not quite sure what to do about that except bump up the
> > wpa_supplicant assoc_failed timeout by a few more seconds?
> 
> As long as there is still enough time for the scan to be completed
> before deciding to create a new IBSS. I don't remember how that code
> worked, so I don't know whether 5 second as the IBSS timeout will
> guarantee this for every case. If there are any problems in providing
> such guarantee, I have nothing against increasing the wpa_supplicant
> timeout for IBSS. I might do that anyway since there is not really much
> point in timing out IBSS join/create in most cases.

That's probably the best solution; to increase the supplicant's timeout
for the IBSS case and decrease the mac80211 IBSS create timeout.

Dan