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diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 6c9cfb0d7639..2760825e53fa 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -403,6 +403,15 @@ config NET_DEVLINK
infrastructure to support access to physical chip-wide config and
monitoring.
+config MAY_USE_DEVLINK
+ tristate
+ default m if NET_DEVLINK=m
+ default y if NET_DEVLINK=y || NET_DEVLINK=n
+ help
+ Drivers using the devlink infrastructure should have a dependency
+ on MAY_USE_DEVLINK to ensure they do not cause link errors when
+ devlink is a loadable module and the driver using it is built-in.
+
endif # if NET
# Used by archs to tell that they support BPF_JIT