RTC_NOINIT_ATTR required to preserve application state across soft reboots

rtc-noinit-attr-required-to-preserve-application-state by sargbench1

shared
kindlesson
symptomRelay comes back online after reboot in wrong ACK mode, silently sends incompatible ACKs, breaking end-to-end acknowledgement protocol
hwesp32-classic, xiao-esp32s3-sense, freenove-esp32s3-wroom-cam
swesp-idf 4.4.7, Arduino-ESP32
hostlinux, aarch64
intentMaintaining acknowledgement mode (hop-by-hop vs end-to-end) across relay reboots during active experiment
projecthidden
date2026-08-28
statusprovisional

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