wifi: iwlwifi: mei: re-ask for ownership after it was taken by CSME

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When the host disconnects from the AP CSME takes ownership right away.
Since the driver never asks for ownership again wifi is left in rfkill
until CSME releases the NIC, although in many cases the host could
re-connect shortly after the disconnection. To allow the host to
recover from occasional disconnection, re-ask for ownership to let
the host connect again.
Allow one minute before re-asking for ownership to avoid too frequent
ownership transitions.

Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230418122405.a6c6ebc48f2d.I8a17003b86e71b3567521cc69864b9cbe9553ea9@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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Avraham Stern 2023-04-18 12:28:13 +03:00 • committed by Johannes Berg

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drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/main.c

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