2.6.11-mm1: sound <-> GAMEPORT problems

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:41:59AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2005 12:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11
> >-mm1/
> >
> <snip>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the ymfpci sound driver wouldn't compile without gameport support selected 
> since the sound card has a gameport on it:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkov@uni-muenster.de>
> 
> --- sound/pci/ymfpci/ymfpci.c.orig 2005-03-07 09:07:10.000000000 +0100
> +++ sound/pci/ymfpci/ymfpci.c 2005-03-07 09:08:02.000000000 +0100
> @@ -332,7 +332,9 @@ static int __devinit snd_card_ymfpci_pro
>    }
>   }
>  
> +#ifdef SUPPORT_JOYSTICK
>   snd_ymfpci_create_gameport(chip, dev, legacy_ctrl, legacy_ctrl2);
> +#endif /* SUPPORT_JOYSTICK */
>  
>   if ((err = snd_card_register(card)) < 0) {
>    snd_card_free(card);


Nice catch (but I had to apply the patch manually due to some 
whitespace damage).


After a quick look, it seems there are a dozen other sound drivers (most 
OSS but also ALSA) with similar problems.

There are two possibilities:
1. continue to #ifdef all GAMEPORT support in sound drivers
2. remove all #ifdef's for GAMEPORT and let drivers that can use the
   gameport (including the sound drivers) simply select GAMEPORT
   As far as I can see, in this case GAMEPORT does no longer have to be
   user-visible?


I can send patches for both, but I'd prefer the second solution.


cu
Adrian

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