Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] dt-bindings: wireless: ieee80211: Add disable-rfkill property

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 12/20/25 5:05 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 10:12:14AM +0100, 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 <jerome.debretagne@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Commit c6a7c0b09d5f ("wifi: ath12k: Add Support for enabling or
>>>> disabling specific features based on ACPI bitflag") added a way to
>>>> support features set via ACPI, including the DISABLE_RFKILL bit.
>>>>
>>>> Add a disable-rfkill property to expose the DISABLE_RFKILL bit
>>>> equivalent for devices described by a Devicetree instead of ACPI.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jérôme de Bretagne <jerome.debretagne@gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ieee80211.yaml | 6 ++++++
>>>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ieee80211.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ieee80211.yaml
>>>> index d89f7a3f88a71d45d6f4ab2ae909eae09cbcaf9a..c10a4675640be947cd0b5eaec2c7ff367fd93945 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ieee80211.yaml
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ieee80211.yaml
>>>> @@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ properties:
>>>>         different 5 GHz subbands. Using them incorrectly could not work or
>>>>         decrease performance noticeably
>>>>
>>>> +  disable-rfkill:
>>>> +    type: boolean
>>>> +    description:
>>>> +      Disable rfkill for some devices on which Wi-Fi would be entirely hard
>>>> +      blocked by default otherwise
>>>> +
>>>>   additionalProperties: true
>>>>
>>>>   examples:
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 2.47.3
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> One of the examples _might_ be broken-rfkill, e.g. if the chip expects
> to have the actual rfkill control from the EC, but the board doesn't
> provide one.

Hm, I haven't thought about the EC being involved previously. Maybe
+Maximilian would have an idea whether this could be a factor that we
simply haven't implemented yet in the SAM driver..

Konrad