Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:25:07 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: BUG in 2.6.22-rc2-mm1: Parts of Alsa sound architecture broken |
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>> > >Well, I find the change of CONFIG_SND to menuconfig is fine, too. >> > >But CONFIG_SND_PCI_DRIVERS and others don't make much sense to me. >> > >How is it useful at all? >> > >> > Hah, I just tell you some of my own experience. >> > In summer 2003, I bought the last new machine, and it got these >> > shiny new ports they like to call USB. :) >> > I did not have much use for it, but I left it on - you never know >> > what standard next is the big win of the decade. And actually, >> > it did not took long (well, summer 2005) to get my first USB device. >> > Still, I am hell as sure I do not have USB-based sound devices >> > anytime soon, so it would be cool to deactivate the whole usbsound >> > menu at once. I think I said that in the patch description, did not I? >> >> But it's not cool to add an extra config item just for that, too. >> And, the structure of menuconfig-if-endif is uglier than menu-endmenu. >> That's why I feel a bit uneasy, although all these are a matter of >> taste... > >Forgot to mention about another annoying drawback. Because of the new >CONFIG_SND_*_DRIVERS, you'll have to re-select all belonging >CONFIG_SND_*, even via config oldconfig. Putting the dependency on >the top seems to reset the values defined in the old .config.
Well, *I* (previously) submitted patches with "default y", but Jens Axboe [http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/12/164] disagreed heavily enough to stop that practice.
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