brcmfmac: reduce firmware-signalling locking scope in rx path

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In the receive path a spinlock is taken upon parsing the TLV signal
header. This moves to locking to the TLV handling functions where
it protects the data structures.

Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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Arend van Spriel 2013-06-26 14:20:21 +02:00 • committed by John W. Linville

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drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c

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