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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: work around reverse dependency on MEI
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
        "Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Cc:     "Coelho, Luciano" <luciano.coelho@intel.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        "Beker, Ayala" <ayala.beker@intel.com>,
        "Korenblit, Miriam Rachel" <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>,
        "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:40:25 +0100
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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 

johannes