From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 07:56:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 07:56:18 -0400 Received: from nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com ([24.29.99.226]:1700 "EHLO nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 07:56:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD66E4C.1010305@linuxhq.com> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 07:51:40 -0400 From: John Weber Organization: Linux Headquarters User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Pierre Rousselet , lkml Subject: Re: 2.5.14 OSS emulation In-Reply-To: <3CD665A0.2030508@wanadoo.fr> <20020506123035.A26941@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:14:40PM +0200, Pierre Rousselet wrote: > >> From ChangeLog-2.5.14 : >> >> (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).