[PATCH] wifi: mt76: mt7996: add NET_AIROHA dependency
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at kernel.org
Mon Sep 28 07:51:44 PDT 2026
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
MT7996E fails to link as build-in when NET_AIROHA=m:
WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for MT76_NPU
Depends on [m]: NETDEVICES [=y] && WLAN [=y] && WLAN_VENDOR_MEDIATEK [=y] && (NET_AIROHA_NPU [=y]=y [=y] || MT76_CORE [=y]=NET_AIROHA_NPU [=y]) && (NET_AIROHA [=m] || !NET_AIROHA [=m])
Selected by [y]:
- MT7996_NPU [=y] && NETDEVICES [=y] && WLAN [=y] && WLAN_VENDOR_MEDIATEK [=y] && MT7996E [=y] && (NET_AIROHA_NPU [=y]=y [=y] || MT76_CORE [=y]=NET_AIROHA_NPU [=y])
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/npu.o: in function `mt76_npu_init':
npu.c:(.text.mt76_npu_init+0x4c): undefined reference to `airoha_ppe_get_dev'
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: npu.c:(.text.mt76_npu_init+0xf8): undefined reference to `airoha_ppe_put_dev'
Add another dependency to prevent this configuration, with an explicit
special case to allow the NPU to be used while the PPE code is stubbed
out with NET_AIROHA=n.
Fixes: 377aa17d2aed ("wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NPU offload support to MT7996 driver")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
---
I am not sure what the use case is for using only the NPU but not
the PPE code, and it would be good to add a comment near the
dependency to clarify this, or possibly skip the complexity and
just make it a hard dependency.
---
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig
index 2ca96e0527c0..a4ece38f938d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ config MT792x_USB
config MT76_NPU
tristate
depends on NET_AIROHA_NPU=y || MT76_CORE=NET_AIROHA_NPU
+ depends on NET_AIROHA=y || NET_AIROHA=n || MT76_CORE=NET_AIROHA
source "drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x0/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2/Kconfig"
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig
index 5742bce12fbb..3c51b402f44e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig
@@ -17,5 +17,6 @@ config MT7996_NPU
bool "MT7996 (PCIe) NPU support"
depends on MT7996E
depends on NET_AIROHA_NPU=y || MT76_CORE=NET_AIROHA_NPU
+ depends on NET_AIROHA=y || NET_AIROHA=n || MT76_CORE=NET_AIROHA
select MT76_NPU
default n
--
2.53.0
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