ath9k: improve reliability of beacon transmission and stuck beacon handling

ath9k calls ath9k_hw_stoptxdma every time it sends a beacon, however there
is not much point in doing that if the previous beacon and mcast traffic
went out properly. On AR9380, calling that function too often can result
in an increase of stuck beacons due to differences in the handling of the
queue enable/disable functionality.

With this patch, the queue will only be explicitly stopped if the previous
data frames were not sent successfully. With the beacon code being the
only remaining user of ath9k_hw_stoptxdma, this function can be simplified
in order to remove the now pointless attempts at waiting for transmission
completion, which would never happen at this point due to the different
method of tx scheduling of the beacon queue.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h
index d37c6d413be1..b2b2ff852c32 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ void ath9k_hw_txstart(struct ath_hw *ah, u32 q);
 void ath9k_hw_cleartxdesc(struct ath_hw *ah, void *ds);
 u32 ath9k_hw_numtxpending(struct ath_hw *ah, u32 q);
 bool ath9k_hw_updatetxtriglevel(struct ath_hw *ah, bool bIncTrigLevel);
-bool ath9k_hw_stoptxdma(struct ath_hw *ah, u32 q);
+bool ath9k_hw_stop_dma_queue(struct ath_hw *ah, u32 q);
 void ath9k_hw_abort_tx_dma(struct ath_hw *ah);
 void ath9k_hw_gettxintrtxqs(struct ath_hw *ah, u32 *txqs);
 bool ath9k_hw_set_txq_props(struct ath_hw *ah, int q,