brcm80211: smac: decreased timer callback irq level

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Timer functions were called at soft-irq level, leading to the limitation
that mutexes could not be used. Lifted this limitation by migrating to
work queues.

Reviewed-by: Alwin Beukers <alwin@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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Roland Vossen 2011-10-12 20:51:12 +02:00 • committed by John W. Linville

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drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c

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drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.h

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