Re: kernel 2.6.0, wrong Kconfig directives

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx> 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...
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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