On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 16:28 -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> Since around the beginning of time, ath9k aggregates have timed out
> after
> 5000 TU (around 5000ms) of inactivity, but nobody seems to be quite
> sure
> why, and this magic number seems to have migrated around from one
> place to
> another.  An openbsd mailing list recently had a patch to disable the
> timeout completely, which they say matches some commercial routers:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg29456.html
> 
> Even in Linux, several non-ath9k drivers default to no timeout
> already.  I
> think changing it directly to zero would be safe, but to allow a more
> structured investigation, let's make it configurable for now.
> 
Since we just made it zero, perhaps we don't need this?

Although perhaps we still want it to be able to debug it?

Anyway - you shouldn't create a debugfs file and play with the extern
stuff etc., let minstrel create the debugfs file in minstrel_ht_alloc()

johannes
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