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From: "Jérôme Pouiller" <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-devel@silabs.com,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
	"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Conor Dooley" <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Lukas Stockmann" <lukas.stockmann@siemens.com>,
	"Gerard Salvatella" <gerard.salvatella@siemens.com>,
	"Jérôme Pouiller" <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
Subject: [PATCH wireless-next v2 2/2] dt-bindings: net: wireless: wfx: discourage OOB IRQ with SDIO
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 2026 10:33:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260901083548.113131-3-jerome.pouiller@silabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260901083548.113131-1-jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>

The WFxxx device provides an SDIO interface. In addition to the usual
in-band SDIO IRQ, the device also supports an out-of-band IRQ line.

However, using the OOB IRQ with SDIO requires to poll the control
register during the device initialization. This polling is unreliable:
if an IRQ is raised while the host reads the control register, the
device is lost and only a reset allows to recover it.

There is no way to fix this in software. So, warn the user that this
setup should be reserved to debug.

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/silabs,wfx.yaml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/silabs,wfx.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/silabs,wfx.yaml
index 6c0888ae4c4e1..60dfe257eadc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/silabs,wfx.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/silabs,wfx.yaml
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ properties:
       used, this property is required. When SDIO is used, the "in-band"
       interrupt provided by the SDIO bus is used unless an interrupt is defined
       in the Device Tree.
+
+      The hardware suffers from a limitation when this property is used with
+      SDIO. OOB IRQ with SDIO should only be used for debug.
     maxItems: 1
 
   reset-gpios:
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-01  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-01  8:33 [PATCH wireless-next v2 0/2] wifi: wfx: fix possible device hang during init Jérôme Pouiller
2026-09-01  8:33 ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 1/2] " Jérôme Pouiller
2026-09-01  8:50   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-01 10:02     ` Jérôme Pouiller
2026-09-01 10:43   ` Sverdlin, Alexander
2026-09-01 12:40     ` Sverdlin, Alexander
2026-09-01 14:15     ` Jérôme Pouiller
2026-09-01  8:33 ` Jérôme Pouiller [this message]
2026-09-03 10:29   ` [PATCH wireless-next v2 2/2] dt-bindings: net: wireless: wfx: discourage OOB IRQ with SDIO Krzysztof Kozlowski

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