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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 12/10/2026 18:38, Konrad Dybcio wrote: > On 12/20/25 10:12 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 06:04:00AM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote: >>> On 20/12/2025 00:21, Jérôme de Bretagne via B4 Relay wrote: >>>> From: Jérôme de Bretagne >>>> >>>> For some devices, Wi-Fi is entirely hard blocked by default making >>>> the Wi-Fi radio unusable, except if rfkill is disabled as expected >>>> on those models. > > [...] > >>> Is this really a hardware description though ? >>> >>> Its really more of a logical/functional description. It tells the runtime >>> what todo, not what the hardware is. >>> >>> You could also have a list of quirks in ath12k for this or have a user-space >>> utility look for the appropriate platform device string name and disable >>> rfkill. >>> >>> I think this logic belongs in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/ triggering on >>> a compat string. >> >> This is good point. Either this could be deducible from the compatible >> or this should actually describe the hardware and whatever is there >> wired/configured, not what OS should do. > > Sorry for digging up an old thread. The board-compatible change is now I don't get why exactly the board-compatible option was chosen, except of course finding workaround which did not need digging out the root of the problem. I suggested the compatible of this device or proper hardware description. > I think merged into ath12k, but I'm not sure I like that, as now every > OS consuming this DT has to carry a table of board compatibles (hence > needing updates _every single time_ we want to support a new device), > instead of being able to convey the quirk through the property Best regards, Krzysztof