ath9k: simplify tx locking

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Instead of releasing and taking back the lock over and over again in the
tx path, hold the lock a bit longer, requiring much fewer lock/unlock pairs.
This makes locking much easier to review and should not have any noticeable
performance/latency impact.

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

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Felix Fietkau 2011-12-14 22:08:07 +01:00 • committed by John W. Linville

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drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c

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