From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH] Obsolete config in kernel source (USE_MIXARTLOADER) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:36:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20100120133144.GD3580@faui49.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A57F24582 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:36:13 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20100120133144.GD3580@faui49.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Christoph Egger Cc: Reinhard.Tartler@informatik.uni-erlangen.de, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:31:44 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote: > > Hi all! > > As part of the VAMOS[0] research project at the University of > Erlangen we're checking referential integrity between kernel KConfig > options and in-code Conditional blocks. > > The config Variable USE_MIXARTLOADER has been non-existent for > all git based linux kernels (2.6.12-rc) and seems to be no longer > relevant. It is only referenced at one place in the Code > (sound/pci/mixart/mixart_hwdep.c). > > The attached patch makes the behaviour more obvious as it is > equivalent to the old one when assuming CONFIG_MIXARTLOADER as not > defined. Well, these all are basically hacks for building modules from the external alsa-driver tree. Since this is fairly harmless, I'd like to keep them. thanks, Takashi