Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759491AbXFEM1M (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:27:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755459AbXFEM06 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:26:58 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39194 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755294AbXFEM05 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:26:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:26:38 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Andrew Morton , Uwe Bugla , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jaroslav Kysela , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: BUG in 2.6.22-rc2-mm1: Parts of Alsa sound architecture broken In-Reply-To: References: <20070524200052.234330@gmx.net> <20070524130921.8dbd3777.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070525102806.77ee9c0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta27) (fiddleheads) (+CVS-20060704) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1365 Lines: 35 Hi, sorry for the late reply on this. At Tue, 29 May 2007 22:18:05 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 29 2007 18:41, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > >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... Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/