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    mac80211: flush workqueue before calling driver ->stop() method · 678f415f
    Lennert Buytenhek authored
    
    
    Since commit "mwl8k: handle station database update for AP's sta entry
    via ->sta_notify()", mwl8k every now and then gets a command timeout
    when ifconfig'ing a STA interface down.  This turns out to be due to
    mwl8k_stop() being called while the work queue item that was scheduled
    by mwl8k_sta_notify() to remove the STA entry for the associated AP is
    still queued, and the former disables interrupts so that when the
    latter eventually runs, a command completion interrupt is never seen.
    
    Fix this by changing ieee80211_stop_device() so that the workqueue is
    flushed before drv_stop() is called, instead of doing it the other way
    around as is done now.  (As ->stop() is allowed to sleep, there isn't
    any reason for drivers to queue work from within it.)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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