On WCN6750 platforms, reboot stress testing occasionally results in WLAN initialization failures after boot. The WPSS firmware reaches the running state successfully, but no WLAN interface is created. Analysis shows that ath11k_ahb depends on the QRTR SMD transport for QMI communication with WPSS firmware. However, this dependency is not currently expressed in Kconfig, allowing qrtr_smd and ath11k_ahb to load in either order when built as modules. If ath11k_ahb is loaded before qrtr_smd becomes available, WLAN initialization may not complete successfully. Make the QRTR and QRTR_SMD dependencies explicit and add a soft dependency to ensure qrtr_smd is loaded before ath11k_ahb. Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.2.0.c2-00204-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1 Fixes: 00402f49d26f ("ath11k: Add support for WCN6750 device") Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/Kconfig | 3 +++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/Kconfig index 122726f84492..44b520d2e66e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/Kconfig @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ config ATH11K_AHB tristate "Atheros ath11k AHB support" depends on ATH11K depends on REMOTEPROC + select RPMSG + select QRTR + select QRTR_SMD help This module adds support for AHB bus diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c index 1e1dea485760..fb5640882b98 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c @@ -1312,5 +1312,6 @@ static struct platform_driver ath11k_ahb_driver = { module_platform_driver(ath11k_ahb_driver); +MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: qrtr_smd"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver support for Qualcomm Technologies 802.11ax WLAN AHB devices"); MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); -- 2.34.1