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    iwlwifi: only add broadcast station once · 7e246191
    Reinette Chatre authored
    Currently the broadcast station is added after every RXON command. Change
    this to only add the broadcast station when interface is added by mac80211.
    With this we need some extra work to ensure broadcast station is always
    present since station table is cleared when RXON without ASSOC bit set is
    sent. To deal with this we re-add all driver known stations to uCode after
    such an RXON command is sent.
    
    We also do some cleanup and remove the various calls to clear the station
    table. We now only clear the station table in two scenarios:
    - only clear uCode portion of station table when RXON command without ASSOC
    bit is sent
    - clear uCode and driver portion when interface goes down or is removed.
    
    We need to do this clearing when interface goes down to deal with the
    device restart/reconfigure routines which do not remove the interface, but
    do add the interface during reconfiguration.
    
    Previously the keys were also cleared when station table in driver is
    cleared, this is not done anymore since mac80211 will take care that keys
    are set and cleared correctly.
    
    There is a known issue with this change. Associating with different AP
    without bringing interface down fails with a firmware error. This is
    because of the lack of full station notification support and the later
    patches in this series that complete the station notification support will
    fix this.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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