Re: BUG in 2.6.22-rc2-mm1: Parts of Alsa sound architecture broken

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:26:38 +0200,
I wrote:
> 
> 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...

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.


Takashi