Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2023 03:35:49 +0100
From:   Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc:     kvalo@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
        kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, ath11k@lists.infradead.org,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath11k_pci: add a soft dependency on qrtr-mhi
Message-ID: <20230307023549.qoiru6roecng4rd6@mraw.org>
Organization: Debian
References: <20221202130600.883174-1-hch@lst.de>
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Hallo Christoph,

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> (2022-12-02):
> While ath11k_pci can load without qrtr-mhi, probing the actual hardware
> will fail when qrtr and qrtr-mhi aren't loaded with
>=20
>    failed to initialize qmi handle: -517
>=20
> Add a MODULE_SOFTDEP statement to bring the module in (and as a hint
> for kernel packaging) for those cases where it isn't autoloaded already
> for some reason.

That's indeed a very helpful hint, which helped us fix support for this
module in a Debian Installer context (where we don't ship each and every
module built in the linux-image package, but some limited selection).

  https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/667


Cheers,
--=20
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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