Dependency bug? Alsa es1370 needs joystick support

Dependency bug? Alsa es1370 needs joystick support

[Erik Hensema]

Hello,

I lost sound support after the upgrade from -test4 to -test6; I've been
told on IRC that this could be due to a dependency of the sounddriver on
joystick support. This indeed seems to be the case.

I'm using the (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 driver.

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Erik Hensema <erik@hensema.net>

Re: Dependency bug? Alsa es1370 needs joystick support

[Christian Kujau]

Erik Hensema wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I lost sound support after the upgrade from -test4 to -test6; I've been
> told on IRC that this could be due to a dependency of the sounddriver on
> joystick support. This indeed seems to be the case.
> 
> I'm using the (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 driver.

Hi,

same here with es1371. but when i look into the -test6 patch, i see this:

------------------
  config SND_ENS1371
         tristate "(Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373"
-       depends on SND && SOUND_GAMEPORT
+       depends on SND && GAMEPORT
         help
           Say 'Y' or 'M' to include support for Ensoniq AudioPCI 
ES1371\ and
           Sound Blaster PCI 64 or 128 soundcards.
------------------


but i did not notice that SND_ENS1371 ever depended from SOUND_GAMEPORT.
(i have no joystick, but still listen to music :-))

so, a rather trivial fix would be:

http://www.nerdbynature.de/bits/snd/Kconfig.nogameport.patch

(for SND_ENS1371 only, but should probably do for similiar cards)

oh, as Malte (TM) pointed out, this is tested for i386 only :-)

cheers,
Christian.

-- 
BOFH excuse #29:

It works the way the Wang did, what's the problem

SND_ENS1371 needs GAMEPORT ?

[Christian Kujau]

since nobody seems to notice, i re-post this again under a different 
topic. no, it's not even a critical thing, but annoying or perhaps 
someone can help me to understand the full impact of this issue.

i've filed a bugzilla report:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1309


Thank you,
Christian.

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Standing room only on the bus.