At Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:26:38 +0200, I wrote: > > At Tue, 29 May 2007 22:18:05 +0200 (MEST), > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > On May 29 2007 18:41, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > > >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? > > > > Hah, I just tell you some of my own experience. > > In summer 2003, I bought the last new machine, and it got these > > shiny new ports they like to call USB. :) > > I did not have much use for it, but I left it on - you never know > > what standard next is the big win of the decade. And actually, > > it did not took long (well, summer 2005) to get my first USB device. > > Still, I am hell as sure I do not have USB-based sound devices > > anytime soon, so it would be cool to deactivate the whole usbsound > > menu at once. I think I said that in the patch description, did not I? > > But it's not cool to add an extra config item just for that, too. > And, the structure of menuconfig-if-endif is uglier than menu-endmenu. > That's why I feel a bit uneasy, although all these are a matter of > taste...
Forgot to mention about another annoying drawback. Because of the new CONFIG_SND_*_DRIVERS, you'll have to re-select all belonging CONFIG_SND_*, even via config oldconfig. Putting the dependency on the top seems to reset the values defined in the old .config. Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/