[PATCH] wifi: mt76: fix airoha_npu dependency tracking

Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo at kernel.org
Fri Jun 12 06:49:54 PDT 2026


> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> There is a new build failure with MT7996E=m MT76_CORE=y and NET_AIROHA_NPU=m:
> 
> ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: airoha_npu_get
> ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: airoha_npu_put
> >>> referenced by npu.c
> >>>               drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/npu.o:(mt76_npu_init) in archive vmlinux.a
> 
> Fix this by reworking the dependency for the MT7996_NPU to only
> allow enabling that when mt76_core can link against the npu driver.
> 
> To make sure this gets caught more easily in the future when additional
> mt76 variants need the same dependency, also turn CONFIG_MT76_NPU into
> a tristate symbol that has the same dependency.
> 
> Fixes: 7fb554b1b623 ("wifi: mt76: Introduce the NPU generic layer")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo at kernel.org>

> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig        | 4 ++--
>  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Makefile       | 6 +++++-
>  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h         | 2 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig
> index 502303622a53..d941e67a222d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig
> @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ config MT792x_USB
>  	select MT76_USB
>  
>  config MT76_NPU
> -	bool
> -	depends on MT76_CORE
> +	tristate
> +	depends on NET_AIROHA_NPU=y || MT76=NET_AIROHA_NPU
>  
>  source "drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x0/Kconfig"
>  source "drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2/Kconfig"
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Makefile b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Makefile
> index 1d42adfe8030..cacdd2b13d05 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Makefile
> @@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ mt76-y := \
>  	mmio.o util.o trace.o dma.o mac80211.o debugfs.o eeprom.o \
>  	tx.o agg-rx.o mcu.o wed.o scan.o channel.o
>  
> -mt76-$(CONFIG_MT76_NPU) += npu.o
> +ifdef CONFIG_MT76_NPU
> +# CONFIG_MT76_NPU is tristate to simplify dependency tracking,
> +# but it behaves as a bool symbol here.
> +mt76-y += npu.o
> +endif
>  mt76-$(CONFIG_PCI) += pci.o
>  mt76-$(CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE) += testmode.o
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h
> index 07955555f84d..60bd155cc7d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h
> @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ int mt76_testmode_dump(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  int mt76_testmode_set_state(struct mt76_phy *phy, enum mt76_testmode_state state);
>  int mt76_testmode_alloc_skb(struct mt76_phy *phy, u32 len);
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_MT76_NPU
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MT76_NPU)
>  void mt76_npu_check_ppe(struct mt76_dev *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  			u32 info);
>  int mt76_npu_dma_add_buf(struct mt76_phy *phy, struct mt76_queue *q,
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig
> index 5503d03bf62c..5742bce12fbb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig
> @@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ config MT7996E
>  config MT7996_NPU
>  	bool "MT7996 (PCIe) NPU support"
>  	depends on MT7996E
> -	depends on NET_AIROHA_NPU=y || MT7996E=NET_AIROHA_NPU
> +	depends on NET_AIROHA_NPU=y || MT76_CORE=NET_AIROHA_NPU
>  	select MT76_NPU
>  	default n
> -- 
> 2.39.5
> 
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