Re: BUG in 2.6.22-rc2-mm1: Parts of Alsa sound architecture broken

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Sat, 26 May 2007 12:51:48 +0200 (MEST),
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> 
> On May 25 2007 23:33, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >
> >Yeah, I'll check it again if reposted.  Jan, could you split ALSA
> >portins at the next time?
> 
> How much split? This time, I made four out of it.

Thanks, that's enough and helpful.  It was just becuase currently we
have a HG tree containing only ALSA portion and a git tree for the
merge, and above all, because I have no control over the latter git
tree...

> >This will make testing and merging much
> >easier for me...
> >
> >But, above all, I'm not convinced much by that patch, especially
> >because it introduces new kconfigs just for menuconfig.
> >For example, CONFIG_SND_PCI_DRIVERS doesn't appear in any Makefiles.
> 
> Neither is/was CONFIG_DVB IIRC. The world does not stop turning just
> because there are now extra options. If you want the functionality
> of menuconfigs without introducing some variable to store their state,
> well, I think that's going to be a bigger kconf patch. (Just think of
> compatibility of the .config format.)

Well, I find the change of CONFIG_SND to menuconfig is fine, too.
But CONFIG_SND_PCI_DRIVERS and others don't make much sense to me.
How is it useful at all?

Anyway, I'd like to confirm that this really works before merging to
the ALSA tree.  As Mauro suspected, kconfig seems not working as
expected...


thanks,

Takashi