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From: John Weber <john.weber@linuxhq.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Pierre Rousselet <pierre.rousselet@wanadoo.fr>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.14 OSS emulation
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 07:51:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD66E4C.1010305@linuxhq.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CD665A0.2030508@wanadoo.fr> <20020506123035.A26941@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:14:40PM +0200, Pierre Rousselet wrote:
> 
>> From ChangeLog-2.5.14 :
>>
>><hch@infradead.org> (02/05/05 1.545)
>>	[PATCH] fix config.in syntax errors.
>>        - sound uses a bool where it should use a dep_bool
>>
>>This prevents using OSS emulation with ALSA drivers. What is the reason 
>>behind ?
> 
> 
> 2.4.13 used to do (in sound/core/Config.in):
> 
> bool '  OSS API emulation' CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL $CONFIG_SND
> 
> The bool verb take exaxctly two arguments, the option description
> and the config option itself, if you want additional depencies you
> have to use dep_bool instead.
> 
> If this fix breaks ALSA it only shows that it has even deeper config
> problems - I don't use ALSA and care only about the syntactical
> correctness of that file.


This is very true.  I've had trouble getting my YMFPCI sound to work 
with ALSA probably for this reason: bad configs.  (After all, I was told 
the YMFPCI code is the same for OSS and ALSA).


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-06 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-06 11:14 2.5.14 OSS emulation Pierre Rousselet
2002-05-06 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-06 11:46   ` Jaroslav Kysela
2002-05-06 11:51   ` John Weber [this message]

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