** Description changed:

  [Impact]
- With RTL8851BE and "Control WLAN radio" (in Dell BIOS setting) on, wifi 
function is not be disabled when we plug in the Ethernet cable. The issue is 
because the rtw89 driver doesn't have the hardware rfkill mechanism.
+ With RTL8852BE and "Control WLAN radio" (in Dell BIOS setting) on, wifi 
function is not be disabled when we plug in the Ethernet cable. The issue is 
because the rtw89 driver doesn't have the hardware rfkill mechanism.
  
  [Fix]
  Backport the Realtek patch in linux-next:
  
  0b38e6277aed wifi: rtw89: add support for hardware rfkill
  
+ This patch also adds the rfkill functionalities to RTL8852BT, which is 
currently
+ not supported by Ubuntu kernels. So we omit the modification on 
+ drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/rtw8852bt.c.
+ 
  [Test Plan]
  1. Enable Control WLAN radio in BIOS setting
  2. Boot into OS
- 2. Plug in Ethernet cable.
- 3. Check if the WiFi function being HW blocked
+ 2. Plug in Ethernet cable
+ 3. On success, the WiFi icon in Gnome GUI should be disappeared in few 
seconds. 
  
  [Where problems could occur]
- May disrupt the software rfkill.
+ This patch adds the functionality of hardware rfkill by continuously polling 
the  register of GPIO pin status and determines whether to shutdown the device 
based on the value read. If the register read is somehow buggy, it may cause 
that the 
+ device is shutdown unexpectedly.

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  rtw89: Support hardware rfkill

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