lib.modules: Use types.optionType for _module.freeformType

This ensures that the module file locations are propagated to the
freeform type, which makes it so that submodules in freeform types now
have their declaration location shown in the manual, fixing
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/132085.

In addition, this also newly allows freeformTypes to be declared
multiple times and all declarations being merged together according to
normal option merging.

This also removes some awkwardness regarding the type of `freeformType`

lib/modules.nix

@@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ rec {
           };
 
           _module.freeformType = mkOption {
-            # Disallow merging for now, but could be implemented nicely with a `types.optionType`
-            type = types.nullOr (types.uniq types.attrs);
+            type = types.nullOr types.optionType;
             internal = true;
             default = null;
             description = ''

lib/tests/modules.sh

@@ -240,6 +240,11 @@ checkConfigOutput '^"24"$' config.foo ./freeform-attrsOf.nix ./freeform-str-dep-
 checkConfigError 'infinite recursion encountered' config.foo ./freeform-attrsOf.nix ./freeform-unstr-dep-str.nix
 checkConfigError 'The option .* is used but not defined' config.foo ./freeform-lazyAttrsOf.nix ./freeform-unstr-dep-str.nix
 checkConfigOutput '^"24"$' config.foo ./freeform-lazyAttrsOf.nix ./freeform-unstr-dep-str.nix ./define-value-string.nix
+# submodules in freeformTypes should have their locations annotated
+checkConfigOutput '/freeform-submodules.nix"$' config.fooDeclarations.0 ./freeform-submodules.nix
+# freeformTypes can get merged using `types.type`, including submodules
+checkConfigOutput '^10$' config.free.xxx.foo ./freeform-submodules.nix
+checkConfigOutput '^10$' config.free.yyy.bar ./freeform-submodules.nix
 
 ## types.anything
 # Check that attribute sets are merged recursively

lib/tests/modules/freeform-submodules.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ lib, options, ... }: with lib.types; {
+
+  options.fooDeclarations = lib.mkOption {
+    default = (options.free.type.getSubOptions [])._freeformOptions.foo.declarations;
+  };
+
+  options.free = lib.mkOption {
+    type = submodule {
+      config._module.freeformType = lib.mkMerge [
+        (attrsOf (submodule {
+          options.foo = lib.mkOption {};
+        }))
+        (attrsOf (submodule {
+          options.bar = lib.mkOption {};
+        }))
+      ];
+    };
+  };
+
+  config.free.xxx.foo = 10;
+  config.free.yyy.bar = 10;
+}