This is mostly the same situation as ACPI vs. platform backlight control. Here on Dell XPS M1330: {pts/1}% rfkill list 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 4: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no Arguably, either one in the pair is redundant. Moreover, hard disabling wireless (using slider on notebook side): {pts/1}% rfkill list 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes So dell-laptop actually lies claiming that both radios are enabled. Even if this is a bug that can be fixed, having two knobs for exactly the same piece of hardware is confusing at the very least.
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