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From: Georgi Valkov <gvalkov@gmail.com>
To: briannorris@chromium.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, andrew@lunn.ch
Cc: francesco@dolcini.it, johannes.berg@intel.com, kees@kernel.org,
	miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com, wenst@chromium.org,
	rafael.beims@toradex.com, avraham.stern@intel.com,
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	Frank.Li@nxp.com, chunfan.chen@gmail.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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Subject: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: armada: WRT3200ACM: add marvell,ignore-regulatory-hint
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:50:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260814125025.90522-2-gvalkov@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260814125025.90522-1-gvalkov@gmail.com>

WRT3200ACM and WRT32x routers always report a fixed US regulatory domain
from the mwifiex ROM, which conflicts with the platform regulatory
configuration on units sold outside the US market. For example:
- phy0 mwlwifi 5 GHz, hard-coded region 98 EU mapped to FR
- phy1 mwlwifi 2.4 GHz, hard-coded region 98 EU mapped to FR
- phy2 mwifiex 2.4 and 5 GHz, hard-coded region US

When the system boots, it detects a conflict between the user selected
region and the radios, e.g. BG FR US, and applies extreme restrictions,
preventing use of 5 GHz and DFS channels. This also affects phy0.

Add a flag marvell,ignore-regulatory-hint to the WRT3200ACM device-tree,
which signals mwifiex to ignore an incorrect regulatory hint from ROM,
so userspace can set the correct platform regulatory domain. The radios
in WRT3200ACM/WRT32x are locked to the hard-coded configuration for which
they are certified, so the only impact is that the region conflict is
avoided and the 5 GHz radios can be used.

The Linux kernel sources do not have support for WRT32x. An equivalent
patch for these routers has to be sent to OpenWrt.

[1] https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/issues/173#issuecomment-307879699
[2] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9956

Tested-on: WRT3200ACM, OpenWrt, make dt_binding_check: pass
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Georgi Valkov <gvalkov@gmail.com>
---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/armada-385-linksys-rango.dts | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/armada-385-linksys-rango.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/armada-385-linksys-rango.dts
index 4ab45f294de2..c5f94463ef71 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/armada-385-linksys-rango.dts
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/armada-385-linksys-rango.dts
@@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ &sdhci {
 	wp-inverted;
 	bus-width = <8>;
 	status = "okay";
+
+	wifi@1 {
+		compatible = "marvell,sd8897";
+		reg = <1>;
+		marvell,ignore-regulatory-hint;
+	};
 };
 
 &usb3_1_vbus {
-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-14 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-28 10:35 [PATCH] wifi: mwifiex: ignore ROM regulatory hint on WRT3200ACM/WRT32x Georgi Valkov
2026-07-30  2:16 ` Jeff Chen
2026-07-30  3:06   ` George Valkov
2026-07-30  3:24     ` George Valkov
2026-07-30  7:47       ` Jeff Chen
2026-07-31  6:31         ` [PATCH v2] " Georgi Valkov
2026-08-07  8:26           ` Jeff Chen
2026-08-07 18:21             ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Georgi Valkov
2026-08-07 18:21               ` [PATCH v3 2/2] ARM: dts: armada: WRT3200ACM: add marvell,ignore-regulatory-hint Georgi Valkov
2026-08-07 18:39               ` [PATCH v3 1/2] wifi: mwifiex: ignore ROM regulatory hint on WRT3200ACM/WRT32x Johannes Berg
2026-08-07 19:49                 ` George Valkov
2026-08-10 18:30                   ` Brian Norris
2026-08-14 12:50                     ` [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: net: wireless: add flag marvell,ignore-regulatory-hint Georgi Valkov
2026-08-14 12:50                       ` Georgi Valkov [this message]
2026-08-14 12:50                       ` [PATCH 3/3] wifi: mwifiex: add dt flag to ignore incorrect ROM regulatory hint Georgi Valkov

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