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1. Re: [PATCH] service: Fix autoconnect after rejection
(Daniel Wagner)
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:01:39 +0100
From: Daniel Wagner <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] service: Fix autoconnect after rejection
To: Matthijs Vader <[email protected]>
Cc: "VAUTRIN Emmanuel (Canal Plus Prestataire)"
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Hi,
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 07:56:41PM +0000, Matthijs Vader wrote:
> There is a patch set, dated 2017 that adds a setting to configure the
> maximum number of retries [1]. Including an option to set it negative,
> to retry indefinitely.
The patch adds this feature directly to the wifi plugin. Emmanuel's
approach is to change the main service state machine. This has
the benefit that it would work for all technologies.
> Since then, we now have 10.000s of devices out there, many of which
> use wifi. Many of those devices are completely unattended (ie. in an
> installed system with no-one watching over it) or at the very least
> can be considered unattended compared to what I understood was the
> original ConnMan use case: a phone. The difference in perspective
> between a phone in someone his/her hands vs. an unattended device with
> hours of travel to get to, makes quite the difference for this.
This is correct.
> We decided to make it retry the connection forever, which worked out
> well. At least much better than the initial situation, where it would
> stop retrying after a few attempts.
Glad to hear. I really think we should add something like this. In a
controlled environment, it totally makes sense to have such an option.
Thanks,
Daniel
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