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rt2800usb: read TX_STA_FIFO asynchronously

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Trying to fix the "TX status report missed" warnings
by reading the TX_STA_FIFO entries as quickly as possible.
The TX_STA_FIFO is too small in hardware, thus reading
it only from the workqueue is too slow and entries get lost.

Start an asynchronous read of the TX_STA_FIFO directly from
the TX URB completion callback (atomic context, thus it cannot
use the blocking rt2800_register_read()). If the async
read returns a valid FIFO entry, it is pushed into a larger
FIFO inside struct rt2x00_dev, until rt2800_txdone() picks
it up.

A .tx_dma_done callback is added to struct rt2x00lib_ops
to trigger the async read from the URB completion callback.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Stezenbach 2011-04-18 15:29:12 +02:00 • committed by John W. Linville
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