Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/4] wifi: rtl8xxxu: move dynamic_tx_rpt_timing_counter from ra_info to priv
From: Georg Müller
Date: Mon Mar 16 2026 - 05:32:22 EST
Am 16.03.26 um 07:17 schrieb Ping-Ke Shih:
It is used globally (not per mac) like this in the vendor driver as well [1][2].
Georg Müller <georgmueller@xxxxxxx> wrote:
dynamic_tx_rpt_timing_counter is not per mac_id, but used across all
mac_ids.
I don't know the purpose of dynamic_tx_rpt_timing_counter. Could you
share your study?
Bitterblue Smith gave the hint that this should not be per macid [3], so it should move
out of struct ra_info.
[1] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/blob/master/hal/Hal8188ERateAdaptive.c#L248
[2] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/blob/v5.2.2.4/hal8188erateadaptive.c#L285
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/938ae608-a865-4056-06de-c230d74e1847@xxxxxxxxx/