Merge pull request #76861 from Infinisil/paths-as-submodules

lib/types: Allow paths as submodule values

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/tests/modules.sh b/lib/tests/modules.sh
index c8340ff7f15..8cd632a439c 100755
--- a/lib/tests/modules.sh
+++ b/lib/tests/modules.sh
@@ -174,8 +174,7 @@ checkConfigOutput "true" config.submodule.inner ./declare-submoduleWith-modules.
 checkConfigOutput "true" config.submodule.outer ./declare-submoduleWith-modules.nix
 
 ## Paths should be allowed as values and work as expected
-# Temporarily disabled until https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/76861
-#checkConfigOutput "true" config.submodule.enable ./declare-submoduleWith-path.nix
+checkConfigOutput "true" config.submodule.enable ./declare-submoduleWith-path.nix
 
 # Check that disabledModules works recursively and correctly
 checkConfigOutput "true" config.enable ./disable-recursive/main.nix
diff --git a/lib/types.nix b/lib/types.nix
index e86f6d36476..e6f84176657 100644
--- a/lib/types.nix
+++ b/lib/types.nix
@@ -430,14 +430,16 @@ rec {
           else unify (if shorthandOnlyDefinesConfig then { config = value; } else value);
 
         allModules = defs: modules ++ imap1 (n: { value, file }:
-          # Annotate the value with the location of its definition for better error messages
-          coerce (lib.modules.unifyModuleSyntax file "${toString file}-${toString n}") value
+          if isAttrs value || isFunction value then
+            # Annotate the value with the location of its definition for better error messages
+            coerce (lib.modules.unifyModuleSyntax file "${toString file}-${toString n}") value
+          else value
         ) defs;
 
       in
       mkOptionType rec {
         name = "submodule";
-        check = x: isAttrs x || isFunction x;
+        check = x: isAttrs x || isFunction x || path.check x;
         merge = loc: defs:
           (evalModules {
             modules = allModules defs;