[RFC] Update empty qmi|mbim-proxy lifetime from 30s to 300s

[Aleksander Morgado]

> ModemManager 1.10 introduced the concept of "inhibiting devices" which
> is basically a way to tell MM to temporarily stop using a given modem,
> e.g. if we want to do a firmware upgrade.
>
> Once a device is inhibited, all clients of the qmi|mbim-proxy
> processes that were created by MM gets removed, and so the proxies may
> end up without any client and the "empty proxy lifetime" timeout kicks
> in. This timeout is currently 30s, and when it's reached, the proxy
> process finishes by itself.
>
> I'd like to increase this timeout to a much longer value, e.g. 300s,
> because I wouldn't want other processes to have to restart the proxies
> themselves while the device inhibition in MM is ongoing.
>
> I know systems where the proxies are running from system boot, without
> any "empty proxy lifetime", but that is probably overkill as a
> default, so how about using a 300s timeout instead of 30s? That would
> at least solve my issues with fwupd as 300s is long enough for a FW
> update to be performed, and so the proxies are not
> finished/restarted/finished/restarted during the upgrade.
>
> What do you think?
>

For libqmi, see these suggested changes:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/libqmi/merge_requests/22


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