From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261196AbVDZB5R (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:57:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261223AbVDZB5R (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:57:17 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:148 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261196AbVDZB5O (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:57:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:53:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Adrian Bunk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] change the SOUND_PRIME handling Message-Id: <20050425185342.50ac4397.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050415004845.GI20400@stusta.de> References: <20050415004845.GI20400@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > > SOUND_PRIME (for OSS) is a tristate. > > This doesn't make much sense if most users are checking for > SOUND_PRIME!=0. > > This patch changes the semantics of SOUND_PRIME to being a limit for all > OSS modules, IOW: SOUND_PRIME=m does now say that all OSS drivers can > only be modular. > > As a side effect, since SOUND_PRIME already depends on SOUND, there's no > longer a reason for drivers depending on SOUND_PRIME to additionally > depend on SOUND. This spits lots of rejects because it had dependencies on Sam's trees and I've dropped all bk trees. Please fix it up in a week or three.