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

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi,

sorry for the late reply on this.

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...


Takashi
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