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SubjectRe: [PATCH] iwlwifi: work around reverse dependency on MEI
On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 3:40 PM Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 14:25 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > > > config IWLMEI
> > > > - tristate "Intel Management Engine communication over WLAN"
> > > > - depends on INTEL_MEI
> > > > + bool "Intel Management Engine communication over WLAN"
> > > > + depends on INTEL_MEI=y || INTEL_MEI=IWLMVM
> > > > + depends on IWLMVM=y || IWLWIFI=m
> > > > depends on PM
> > > > - depends on IWLMVM
> > > > help
> > > > Enables the iwlmei kernel module.
> > >
> > > Johannes suggested to make IWLMVM depend on IWLMEI || !IWLMEI
> > > That worked as well, I just had issues with this in our internal backport based tree.
> > > I need to spend a bit more time on this, but I admit my total ignorance in Kconfig's dialect.
> >
> > It's still not enough, the dependency is in iwlwifi, not in iwlmvm, so it
> > would remain broken for IWLWIFI=y IWLMVM=m IWLMEI=m.
> >
>
> I missed the pcie/trans.c dependency, and the others are (I think) in
> mvm...
>
> but then we can do
>
> config IWLWIFI
> ...
> depends on IWLMEI || !IWLMEI
> ...
>
> no? That way, we exclude IWLWIFI=y && IWLMEI=m, which I believe causes
> the issue? And IWLMVM already depends on IWLWIFI (via the if clause), so
> that

Right, that should work. Testing with that version now.

Arnd

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