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| author | Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> | 2013-08-10 12:27:19 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2013-08-15 16:07:51 -0400 |
| commit | 4061f895088a2825b15312947aedb8574e2d8de5 (patch) | |
| tree | b92def4417eb28dc36df9ef6e38534eb42428a40 /drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_bus.h | |
| parent | 74ea1f45243ecfbed30e3ef51d9ec5df2042be03 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-4061f895088a2825b15312947aedb8574e2d8de5.zip op-kernel-dev-4061f895088a2825b15312947aedb8574e2d8de5.tar.gz | |
brcmfmac: use irq safe spinlock in brcmf_sdbrcm_txdata()
Firmware-signalling needs transmit to firmware to be atomic and
uses a spinlock with irq disabled. Therefor, brcmf_sdbrcm_txdata()
should not use spin_unlock_bh() as it would enable the interrupts.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_bus.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_bus.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_bus.h b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_bus.h index 080395f..9249b6d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_bus.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_bus.h @@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ struct brcmf_bus_dcmd { * * @init: prepare for communication with dongle. * @stop: clear pending frames, disable data flow. - * @txdata: send a data frame to the dongle (callee disposes skb). + * @txdata: send a data frame to the dongle. When the data + * has been transferred, the common driver must be + * notified using brcmf_txcomplete(). The common + * driver calls this function with interrupts + * disabled. * @txctl: transmit a control request message to dongle. * @rxctl: receive a control response message from dongle. * @gettxq: obtain a reference of bus transmit queue (optional). |
