ath9k_htc: Use separate URB pool for management frames
authorSujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:56:46 +0000 (11:26 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:24:34 +0000 (15:24 -0400)
commit2f80194c90caea3668d0e3739518bf100449a813
treee5b60d2bb06af20fe77198166cf21c0f60103a28
parent859c3ca1e4608615788dc6cbc199210fe4b5efa2
ath9k_htc: Use separate URB pool for management frames

Beacon transmission needs to involve as little latency
as possible after receiving a SWBA event from the target.
Since packets are buffered to use TX stream mode, beacon
frames sometimes gets queued up and are not sent out immediately.
Fix this by decoupling management frame transmission from the
normal data path and send them out immediately.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h