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Re: [PATCH 4/5] mt76x02: minor beaconing init changes

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> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 12:33:32PM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > > Disable BEACON timer during init and remove interrupt registers
> > > initalization form generic conde since they are PCIe specific.
> > > 
> > 
> > Since the timer is actually disabled (MT_INT_TIMER_EN set to 0) and
> > we just set the timer timeout here, does it worth to copy/paste
> > the same code?
> 
> As I pointed somwhere else I have some random, not easy to reproduce
> performance drops on MT7610U sta mode, starting when AP mode support
> was added. I'm can not be sure if this is by this setting this
> timer, but I would rather accept slight code duplication, than 
> do something that (even with very low probability) can cause
> troubles and for sure is not necessary.

I am fine with this patch but I do not see how original code can cause issues since
MT_INT_TIMER_EN is already set it to 0 (comment mt76_wr(dev, MT_INT_TIMER_EN, 0) out
in the original code)

Regards,
Lorenzo

> 
> Thanks
> Stanislaw



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