wifi: ath12k: fix ML-STA authentication timeout on QCC2072

QCC2072 firmware interprets the MLO_LINK_ADD and MLO_START_AS_ACTIVE
flags to control the link state during MLO vdev start. MLO_LINK_ADD
indicates that a link is being added, while MLO_START_AS_ACTIVE specifies
that the link should become active during the start.

When an association link is added without setting MLO_START_AS_ACTIVE,
the firmware may transition the link into a suspended state. In this
case, authentication frames transmitted by the host can be dropped,
leading to repeated authentication retries and eventual timeout,
for example:
  wlp1s0: send auth to <AP> (try 1/3)
  wlp1s0: send auth to <AP> (try 2/3)
  wlp1s0: send auth to <AP> (try 3/3)
  wlp1s0: authentication with <AP> timed out

Avoid triggering this behavior by setting the MLO_START_AS_ACTIVE flag
when MLO_ASSOC_LINK is set, which tells the firmware that the current
vdev must not enter suspend mode

Note that this change relies on firmware behavior observed on the QCC2072
platform. The firmware on WCN7850 and QCN9274 does not use the
MLO_START_AS_ACTIVE flag, so this change is effectively a no-op on those
platforms

Tested-on: QCC2072 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.COL.1.0.c2-00068-QCACOLSWPL_V1_TO_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c5-00302-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-1.115823.3

Fixes: d8e1f4a19310 ("wifi: ath12k: enable QCC2072 support")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing.pan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260704073000.3300099-1-miaoqing.pan@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>

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