ath5k: move beacon processing to a tasklet

We currently send beacons directly from the interrupt routine.  This
can hold up interrupt processing in beaconing modes and makes the
ISR somewhat more complex.  Move it to a tasklet like rx and tx.

Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Bob Copeland
2009-02-15 12:06:11 -05:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent b5f03956c5
commit acf3c1a592
2 changed files with 36 additions and 29 deletions

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@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ struct ath5k_softc {
struct ath5k_led tx_led; /* tx led */
spinlock_t block; /* protects beacon */
struct tasklet_struct beacontq; /* beacon intr tasklet */
struct ath5k_buf *bbuf; /* beacon buffer */
unsigned int bhalq, /* SW q for outgoing beacons */
bmisscount, /* missed beacon transmits */