openipc-ai · Sep 20, 2026 · Sep 20, 2026
@@ -547,17 +547,10 @@ CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y
 CONFIG_LIB80211=y
 # CONFIG_LIB80211_DEBUG is not set
 # CONFIG_CFG80211_ALLOW_RECONNECT is not set
-CONFIG_MAC80211=m
-CONFIG_MAC80211_HAS_RC=y
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_PID is not set
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL_HT=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="minstrel_ht"
-CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH=y
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU is not set
+# The rtlwifi drivers above were its only users. cfg80211 stays: the
+# out-of-tree mt7601sta depends on it, and CFG80211_WEXT=y here is what holds
+# WEXT_CORE on for the wext drivers a camera may add.
+# CONFIG_MAC80211 is not set
 # CONFIG_WIMAX is not set
 # CONFIG_RFKILL is not set
 # CONFIG_NET_9P is not set
@@ -864,10 +857,16 @@ CONFIG_WLAN=y
 # CONFIG_LIBERTAS is not set
 # CONFIG_P54_COMMON is not set
 # CONFIG_RT2X00 is not set
-CONFIG_RTL8192SE=m
-CONFIG_RTL8192CU=m
-CONFIG_RTLWIFI=m
-CONFIG_RTL8192C_COMMON=m
+# Both wait on firmware no package on this image installs: rtl8192cu asks for
+# rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw*.bin and rtl8192se for rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin, while the
+# only blobs here are rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin and mediatek/mt7601u.bin. Neither
+# could finish probing, and /etc/wireless/usb has no arm that modprobes them.
+# That was 330KB of .ko, and the 216KB mac80211 below existed only to serve
+# them. Same argument as #2442 and #2404.
+# CONFIG_RTL8192SE is not set
+# CONFIG_RTL8192CU is not set
+# CONFIG_RTLWIFI is not set
+# CONFIG_RTL8192C_COMMON is not set
 # CONFIG_WL1251 is not set
 # CONFIG_WL12XX_MENU is not set
 # CONFIG_ZD1211RW is not set

@@ -651,16 +651,16 @@ CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS=y
 # CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB is not set
 # CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set
 # CONFIG_LIB80211 is not set
-CONFIG_MAC80211=m
-CONFIG_MAC80211_HAS_RC=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL_HT=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="minstrel_ht"
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESSAGE_TRACING is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU is not set
+# Nothing on this image is a mac80211 driver -- modules.dep shows only
+# cfg80211 under it, and the sole Wi-Fi driver here, USB_ZD1201, is a wext
+# driver that sits on cfg80211 alone. 318KB of .ko for a stack with no user,
+# on a board with 8KB left of 5120KB. cfg80211 and ZD1201 both stay: ZD1201 is
+# what selects WIRELESS_EXT here (the symbol has no prompt), and dropping it
+# would take the wext API away from any out-of-tree driver a camera adds --
+# the trap #2442 called out. RTL_CARDS drops to n with this: it depends on
+# mac80211, but it was a menu with no driver under it (RTL8192CU and friends
+# are all off), so no module is lost -- the rootfs never had rtlwifi.ko.
+# CONFIG_MAC80211 is not set
 # CONFIG_WIMAX is not set
 # CONFIG_RFKILL is not set
 # CONFIG_NET_9P is not set

@@ -702,25 +702,16 @@ CONFIG_BQL=y
 # CONFIG_AF_KCM is not set
 # CONFIG_STREAM_PARSER is not set
 CONFIG_WIRELESS=y
-CONFIG_CFG80211=m
-# CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE is not set
-# CONFIG_CFG80211_DEVELOPER_WARNINGS is not set
-CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS=y
-# CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB is not set
-CONFIG_CFG80211_CRDA_SUPPORT=y
-# CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set
+# mt7601u below was the only driver on this image built on cfg80211/mac80211,
+# and it waits on mediatek/mt7601u.bin -- firmware this board ships no package
+# for, so it could never finish probing. That made the whole stack dead weight:
+# 628KB of .ko on a rootfs that had 20KB left of 5120KB. Nothing here selects
+# WIRELESS_EXT (it is absent from this config, unlike hi3519v101 where r8188eu
+# holds it on), so no out-of-tree driver loses an API it has today. Same
+# argument as #2442.
+# CONFIG_CFG80211 is not set
 # CONFIG_LIB80211 is not set
-CONFIG_MAC80211=m
-CONFIG_MAC80211_HAS_RC=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL_HT=y
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL_VHT is not set
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="minstrel_ht"
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESSAGE_TRACING is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU is not set
-CONFIG_MAC80211_STA_HASH_MAX_SIZE=0
+# CONFIG_MAC80211 is not set
 # CONFIG_WIMAX is not set
 # CONFIG_RFKILL is not set
 # CONFIG_NET_9P is not set
@@ -995,18 +986,19 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=65536
 #
 # SCSI device support
 #
-CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=m
+# Same dead subsystem as hi3516ev200.generic.config: USB_STORAGE is off below
+# and no HBA is enabled, so scsi_mod, sd_mod and the Fibre Channel transport
+# have nothing to bind to. SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y is only the menu gate.
+# SCSI_MOD is a hidden symbol that defaults to y once SCSI=n; it builds no
+# module of its own.
+CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=y
 # CONFIG_RAID_ATTRS is not set
-CONFIG_SCSI=m
-CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y
-CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK=y
-# CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT is not set
-# CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI is not set
 
 #
 # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
 #
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD is not set
 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set
 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set
 # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR is not set
@@ -1020,7 +1012,7 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
 # SCSI Transports
 #
 # CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS is not set
-CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS=m
+# CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS is not set
 # CONFIG_SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS is not set
 # CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_ATTRS is not set
 # CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS is not set
@@ -1192,8 +1184,7 @@ CONFIG_WLAN=y
 # CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL is not set
 # CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_INTERSIL is not set
 # CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_MARVELL is not set
-CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_MEDIATEK=y
-CONFIG_MT7601U=m
+# CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_MEDIATEK is not set
 # CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_RALINK is not set
 # CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK is not set
 # CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_RSI is not set

@@ -1099,18 +1099,23 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=65536
 #
 # SCSI device support
 #
-CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=m
+# Nothing on this image can register a SCSI device: USB_STORAGE is off below,
+# USB_UAS with it, and no low-level HBA is enabled -- SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y is only
+# the menu gate. That left scsi_mod, sd_mod and a Fibre Channel transport on a
+# camera, 236KB of .ko that can never bind, on a rootfs 4KB over its cap. The
+# usb_f_mass_storage gadget is unaffected: it answers SCSI itself and does not
+# go through this subsystem. Same argument as #2442. Shared with the ultimate
+# variant, which has no USB_STORAGE either.
+# SCSI_MOD is a hidden symbol that defaults to y once SCSI=n; it builds no
+# module of its own.
+CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=y
 # CONFIG_RAID_ATTRS is not set
-CONFIG_SCSI=m
-CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y
-CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK=y
-# CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT is not set
-# CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_SCSI is not set
 
 #
 # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
 #
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD is not set
 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set
 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set
 # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR is not set
@@ -1124,7 +1129,7 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
 # SCSI Transports
 #
 # CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS is not set
-CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS=m
+# CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS is not set
 # CONFIG_SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS is not set
 # CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_ATTRS is not set
 # CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS is not set

@@ -751,23 +751,17 @@ CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y
 CONFIG_WEXT_CORE=y
 CONFIG_WEXT_PROC=y
 CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV=y
-CONFIG_CFG80211=m
-# CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE is not set
-# CONFIG_CFG80211_DEVELOPER_WARNINGS is not set
-# CONFIG_CFG80211_REG_DEBUG is not set
-CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS=y
-# CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB is not set
-# CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set
+# No driver on this image is built on either one. modules.dep has nothing
+# depending on cfg80211 or mac80211: the only Wi-Fi driver here is the staging
+# r8188eu, which carries its own stack and its own firmware, and the one
+# out-of-tree module is wireguard. That was 525KB of .ko on the board with the
+# least room in the tree -- 5120KB of a 5120KB cap, reported and passing for
+# weeks. WIRELESS_EXT above survives because r8188eu selects it (it has no
+# prompt of its own), so the wext API an out-of-tree driver may need stays.
+# Same argument as #2442.
+# CONFIG_CFG80211 is not set
 # CONFIG_LIB80211 is not set
-CONFIG_MAC80211=m
-CONFIG_MAC80211_HAS_RC=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL_HT=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL=y
-CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="minstrel_ht"
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_MESSAGE_TRACING is not set
-# CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU is not set
+# CONFIG_MAC80211 is not set
 # CONFIG_WIMAX is not set
 # CONFIG_RFKILL is not set
 # CONFIG_RFKILL_REGULATOR is not set