From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264368AbTLYVZe (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:25:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264369AbTLYVZe (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:25:34 -0500 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:11280 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264368AbTLYVZd (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:25:33 -0500 To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: Andrea Barisani , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.0, wrong Kconfig directives References: <20031222235622.GA17030@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> <87smj8bt6y.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20031225195115.GQ31789@actcom.co.il> <87isk4bptp.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20031225203853.GV31789@actcom.co.il> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:25:20 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20031225203853.GV31789@actcom.co.il> Message-ID: <871xqsbnen.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Muli Ben-Yehuda 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