From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Cc: Andrea Barisani <lcars@infis.univ.trieste.it>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.0, wrong Kconfig directives
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:25:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871xqsbnen.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031225203853.GV31789@actcom.co.il>
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...
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-25 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-22 23:56 kernel 2.6.0, wrong Kconfig directives Andrea Barisani
2003-12-25 19:20 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2003-12-25 19:51 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-12-25 20:33 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2003-12-25 20:38 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-12-25 21:25 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2003-12-26 1:23 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2003-12-25 19:39 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-01-05 22:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-05 22:59 ` Andrea Barisani
2004-01-06 1:22 ` Adrian Bunk
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