A mac_id as an instance in firmware has to be assigned for each station
including AP and connected stations. Firmware will use the mac_id to
control TX rate and do statistics.
Assignment rule is to assign mac_id to each vif when adding vif.
For station mode, sta->mac_id will reuse vif->mac_id. For AP mode,
dynamically allocate an sta->mac_id to a station, and vif->mac_id is
used to send broadcast/multicast packets which are not belong to
a station. For example,
vif->mac_id sta->mac_id
vif0 (STA mode) 0 0
vif1 (AP mode) 1 2...
By the way, remove unused RTW_BC_MC_MACID, which was planed to send
broadcast/multicast packets on fixed mac_id.
Tested-on RTL8822CE with STA + AP SCC mode.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/e4be0a75-43b2-4ae5-9aab-5c4a88e78097@gmail.com/
Cc: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240819025248.17939-1-pkshih@realtek.com
Ping-Ke Shih
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