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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h
index c0fb8b5c42f..20e0d14b41e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h
@@ -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 */