linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ucb1400_ts depends SND_AC97

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Message-Id: <20061210204545.a68d15cd.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:45:45 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ucb1400_ts depends SND_AC97_BUS

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:55:25 -0500 (EST) Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:17:55 -0500 (EST) Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > > Please consider what SND_CONFIG_AC97_BUS corresponds to.  It is 
> > > sound/pci/ac97/ac97_bus.c and if you look into this file you'll see that 
> > > it is perfectly buildable even if sound is entirely configured out, just 
> > > like some lib code would be.
> > 
> > OK.  Should it (CONFIG_SND_AC97_BUS -> sound/pci/ac97/ac97_bus.c)
> > be buildable when sound is disabled?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > If so, where should it be moved to (since afaik, make won't even
> > descend into sound/ if SOUND=n; I don't see that changing
> > any time soon).
> 
> What about this patch?

About all I can say is that it builds as expected...


> ----- >8
> Subject: break config ordering/dependency between UCB1400 touchscreen driver and sound subsystem
> 
> Commit 2d4ba4a3b9aef95d328d74a17ae84f8d658059e2 introduced a dependency
> that was never meant to exist when the ac97_bus.c module was created.
> Move ac97_bus.c up the directory hierarchy to make sure it is built when 
> selected even if sound is configured out so things work as originally 
> expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>


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~Randy
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