iwlwifi: better station table maintenance
This patch makes the station table maintenance safer. Two flags are
maintained:
1) if station is present in driver
2) if station is present in uCode
This will allow us in the future to deal with more stations than the
firmware allows.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
index eb74a40..1c0670b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
@@ -284,6 +284,10 @@
spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->sta_lock, flags);
priv->num_stations = 0;
+ if (iwl_is_alive(priv) &&
+ iwl_send_cmd_pdu_async(priv, REPLY_REMOVE_ALL_STA, 0, NULL, NULL))
+ IWL_ERROR("Couldn't clear the station table\n");
+
memset(priv->stations, 0, sizeof(priv->stations));
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->sta_lock, flags);