At Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:25:07 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt 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. > > Well, *I* (previously) submitted patches with "default y", but Jens > Axboe [http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/12/164] disagreed heavily enough to > stop that practice.
Hm, I guess Jens didn't know about this side-effect. When I don't set "default y", I'll be asked for each belonging item even though I chose "y" manually for the top config (CONFIG_*_DRIVERS). Strangely, setting "default y" has no this effect... 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/