Register the mt7996 phy as a thermal zone sensor using
devm_thermal_of_zone_register() so that device tree thermal-zones
nodes can reference the Wi-Fi chip as a temperature source. This
allows the kernel thermal governor to control external cooling
devices such as PWM fans based on Wi-Fi chip temperature.

Registration is non-fatal: -ENODEV is returned when no
thermal-sensors DT property references this device, which is the
expected case on platforms without a thermal zone configured.

Unregister the thermal zone together with the existing cooling
device when the phy is torn down, and on the hwmon registration
failure path in the same init routine, so neither is left registered
against a phy that is about to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Leung <untilscour@protonmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Unwind cdev/tzone registration in mt7996_thermal_init() on hwmon registration failure.
- Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260810-mt7996-thermal-zone-v2-1-563dfbbf9175@protonmail.com

Changes in v2:
- Take phy->dev->mt76.mutex around mt7996_mcu_get_temperature()
- Unregister phy->tzone explicitly in mt7996_unregister_thermal() before the phy is freed
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260722-mt7996-thermal-zone-v1-1-88896e6e9985@protonmail.com
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c   | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mt7996.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c
index fb635a092584..525bb771f78a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c
@@ -234,11 +234,33 @@ static const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops mt7996_thermal_ops = {
 	.set_cur_state = mt7996_thermal_set_cur_throttle_state,
 };
 
+static int mt7996_thermal_get_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int *temp)
+{
+	struct mt7996_phy *phy = thermal_zone_device_priv(tz);
+	int val;
+
+	mutex_lock(&phy->dev->mt76.mutex);
+	val = mt7996_mcu_get_temperature(phy);
+	mutex_unlock(&phy->dev->mt76.mutex);
+	if (val < 0)
+		return val;
+
+	*temp = val * 1000;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct thermal_zone_device_ops mt7996_tz_ops = {
+	.get_temp = mt7996_thermal_get_temp,
+};
+
 static void mt7996_unregister_thermal(struct mt7996_phy *phy)
 {
 	struct wiphy *wiphy = phy->mt76->hw->wiphy;
 	char name[sizeof("cooling_deviceXXX")];
 
+	if (phy->tzone)
+		devm_thermal_of_zone_unregister(phy->dev->mt76.dev, phy->tzone);
+
 	if (!phy->cdev)
 		return;
 
@@ -275,14 +297,27 @@ static int mt7996_thermal_init(struct mt7996_phy *phy)
 	phy->throttle_temp[MT7996_CRIT_TEMP_IDX] = MT7996_CRIT_TEMP;
 	phy->throttle_temp[MT7996_MAX_TEMP_IDX] = MT7996_MAX_TEMP;
 
+	phy->tzone = devm_thermal_of_zone_register(phy->dev->mt76.dev,
+						   phy->mt76->band_idx, phy,
+						   &mt7996_tz_ops);
+	if (IS_ERR(phy->tzone)) {
+		if (PTR_ERR(phy->tzone) != -ENODEV)
+			dev_warn(phy->dev->mt76.dev,
+				 "failed to register thermal zone %d: %ld\n",
+				 phy->mt76->band_idx, PTR_ERR(phy->tzone));
+		phy->tzone = NULL;
+	}
+
 	if (!IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_HWMON))
 		return 0;
 
 	hwmon = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups(&wiphy->dev, name, phy,
 						       mt7996_hwmon_groups);
 
-	if (IS_ERR(hwmon))
+	if (IS_ERR(hwmon)) {
+		mt7996_unregister_thermal(phy);
 		return PTR_ERR(hwmon);
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mt7996.h b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mt7996.h
index 2a0cdb56f822..39fa25a562e5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mt7996.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mt7996.h
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ struct mt7996_phy {
 
 	struct ieee80211_sband_iftype_data iftype[NUM_NL80211_BANDS][NUM_NL80211_IFTYPES];
 
+	struct thermal_zone_device *tzone;
 	struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev;
 	u8 cdev_state;
 	u8 throttle_state;

---
base-commit: ca800a9302764c445de0da0e84d2252400a770ee
change-id: 20260722-mt7996-thermal-zone-a1de7cb1d728

Best regards,
--  
Ryan Leung <untilscour@protonmail.com>