CONFIG_ANDROID

[tlhackque]

FWIW: Having watched the discussion about CONFIG_ANDROID, it occurs to me that there's an alternative for WireGuard that sidesteps the issue.

So: Why not timestamp key-clear events, and establish a minimum interval?





I have no dog in this fight - just an observer.

From the last patcheset, it seems that the only use in WireGuard is to avoid clearing keys on every wake-up. It seems to me that this would make WireGuard tolerant of the peculiar behavior of the Android (handheld) platforms, and expresses what WireGuard needs - a minimum time between key clearing events.  It's also completely under WireGuard's control, is platform agnostic, and avoids an inevitable discussion about whether 2 seconds between wakeups is immutable and satisfies everyone.  (If you wait long enough, every constant eventually becomes a variable...) Then WireGuard can watch the duststorm over CONFIG_ANDROID's fate settle out at leisure.

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