Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764213AbXFEN3P (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:29:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755879AbXFEN3B (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:29:01 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:46697 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758213AbXFEN3A (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:29:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:25:07 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Takashi Iwai 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: Message-ID: References: <20070524200052.234330@gmx.net> <20070524130921.8dbd3777.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070525102806.77ee9c0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1696 Lines: 37 >> > >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. Jan -- - 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/