linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] dt-bindings: wireless: ieee80211: Add disable-rfkill property

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Message-ID: <9c7115b2-9f31-49e1-a2cd-2071b84fb85d@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:38:00 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To: jerome.debretagne@...il.com, Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
 Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley
 <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
 Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
 Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>, Hans de Goede <hansg@...nel.org>,
 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
 platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, ath12k@...ts.infradead.org,
 Dale Whinham <daleyo@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] dt-bindings: wireless: ieee80211: Add
 disable-rfkill property

On 18/12/2025 23:22, Jérôme de Bretagne via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Jérôme de Bretagne <jerome.debretagne@...il.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.
> 
> Tested-by: Dale Whinham <daleyo@...il.com>

You cannot test a binding. Building and other make-steps are not testing.

I don't even get how this appeared - wasn't here before and there is no
trace on the mailing lists. Can you point to the mailing where this was
given?


> Signed-off-by: Jérôme de Bretagne <jerome.debretagne@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ieee80211.yaml | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
Best regards,
Krzysztof