Re: kernel 2.6.0, wrong Kconfig directives

OGAWA Hirofumi
2003-12-25T21:25:34Z

Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> writes:

> > I see. So why did we need the SOUND_GAMEPORT?
>
> I thought I explained this above, quite verbosely :-)
> Rather than make the sound drivers depend directly on GAMEPORT, which
> is troublesome because Kconfig has no provisions for this type of
> dependancy, we create an artificial dependency, SOUND_GAMEPORT, which
> the sound driver depends on. SOUND_GAMEPORT depends on GAMEPORT, and
> Kconfig ends up doing the right thing. I hope that was clearer.

Umm... SOUND_GAMEPORT is always true, so GAMEPORT is just option, not
dependency.

It may be good to be documented as the help of Kconfig instead of
SOUND_GAMEPORT...
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>