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    net: mac802154: Bring the ability to hold the transmit queue · 20a19d1d
    Miquel Raynal authored
    Create a hold_txs atomic variable and increment/decrement it when
    relevant, ie. when we want to hold the queue or release it: currently
    all the "stopped" situations are suitable, but very soon we will more
    extensively use this feature for MLME purposes.
    
    Upon release, the atomic counter is decremented and checked. If it is
    back to 0, then the netif queue gets woken up. This makes the whole
    process fully transparent, provided that all the users of
    ieee802154_wake/stop_queue() now call ieee802154_hold/release_queue()
    instead.
    
    In no situation individual drivers should call any of these helpers
    manually in order to avoid messing with the counters. There are other
    functions more suited for this purpose which have been introduced, such
    as the _xmit_complete() and _xmit_error() helpers which will handle all
    that for them.
    
    One advantage is that, as no more drivers call the stop/wake helpers
    directly, we can safely stop exporting them and only declare the
    hold/release ones in a header only accessible to the core.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAlexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220519150516.443078-6-miquel.raynal@bootlin.comSigned-off-by: default avatarStefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
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